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• n  someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
  only an automaton wouldn't have noticed
• n  a mechanism that can move automatically

• Finally, as if from an automaton, comes the answer: "I don't have any evidence on that.
• The eyes of the automaton glowed red.
• PURE JOY: A child on a swing belies the stereotype of the autistic automaton.

• zombi
• zombie
• robot
• golem

News & Articles

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• San Mateo County Fair highlights include Frisbee-throwing robot
  The disc-hurling automaton, the creation of the Aragon High School Robotics Team, is part of the San Mateo County Fair's growing technology division. Competitions now include: constructing a mousetrap vehicle; building a Rube Goldberg device; designing a video game; and creating a mobile-phone app or game.
  June 7, 2013 - San Jose Mercury News

Quotes

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• John F Kennedy in Canada.com
  He didn't see,Kennedy said. "He was almost driving like an automaton."
• Richard I. Cohen in Ha'aretz
  He's the Golem, the automaton that the mystics animated with magic spells,Cohen writes. "He's the man prophesized in the Zohar, come to finish the unfinished work of Saul and wipe out Amalek."