automatons
Self-moving mechanical figures
Automatons is a plural of automaton—a self-operating machine, especially one designed to imitate human or animal actions.
Early automatons were mechanical marvels: clockwork figures that wrote, played music, or performed tricks.
The word extends to people who act mechanically, without thought or feeling: The workers moved like automatons on the assembly line.
The alternate plural automata appears in technical and academic contexts.
Programmable mechanical agents
- clockworkSpring-driven gear system
- gearsToothed rotating machine parts
- mechanismsMeans by which things function
- androidsHuman-shaped artificial beings
machines · cogs · springs · servos · actuators · pistons · hydraulics · circuits
Gothic novel's mad scientist
- MetropolisHero's fictional American city
- golemAnimated clay servant
- homunculusArtificial miniature human
- creatureLiving, sentient entity
replicant · Pygmalion · Hoffmann · Olympia · Sandman · artificial · creation · inventor
Lacking thought or awareness
- programmedSet with instructions
- roboticStiff and unemotional
- unthinkingLacking conscious thought
- repetitiveMarked by recurrence
obedient · drone · zombie · sleepwalker · puppet · routine · mechanical · habitual
People doing jobs
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- industrialOf factories and production
- tirelessNever losing energy
efficient · replaceable · expendable · workforce · production · toil · drudgery · repetition
Woodwind instrument performer
- chess playerOne who moves pieces strategically
- curiositiesUnusual things worth examining
- clockmakersTimepiece craftsmen
- craftsmenSkilled manual trade workers
Enlightenment · cabinets · exhibitions · aristocracy · courts · demonstrations · intricate · marvels
robots
Programmable mechanical agents
- clockworkSpring-driven gear system
- gearsToothed rotating machine parts
- mechanismsMeans by which things function
androids · machines · cogs · springs · servos · actuators · pistons · hydraulics · circuits · motors
Frankenstein
Gothic novel's mad scientist
- MetropolisHero's fictional American city
- golemAnimated clay servant
- homunculusArtificial miniature human
creature · replicant · Pygmalion · Hoffmann · Olympia · Sandman · artificial · creation · inventor · mad scientist
mindless
Lacking thought or awareness
- programmedSet with instructions
- roboticStiff and unemotional
- unthinkingLacking conscious thought
repetitive · obedient · drone · zombie · sleepwalker · puppet · routine · mechanical · habitual · conditioned
workers
People doing jobs
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- industrialOf factories and production
tireless · efficient · replaceable · expendable · workforce · production · toil · drudgery · repetition · shifts
flutist
Woodwind instrument performer
- chess playerOne who moves pieces strategically
- curiositiesUnusual things worth examining
- clockmakersTimepiece craftsmen
craftsmen · Enlightenment · cabinets · exhibitions · aristocracy · courts · demonstrations · intricate · marvels · baroque
- mechanical artkinetic art, kinetic sculpture, clockwork, mechanical clock, orrery
- retrofuturismray guns, jetpacks, rocket ships, space helmets, bubble helmets
- Steampunkgears, cogs, brass goggles, airship, dirigible
- uncannyuncanny valley, doppelganger, mannequin, mannequins, wax figure
- beingsbeings, being, entities, entity, creatures
- life formsorganisms, organism, lifeforms, animal, creatures
automatonsfree agents
Athletes available for signing
free spirits · nonconformists · individuals · mavericks · individualists
automatonsliving creatures
Entities possessing biological processes
organisms · sentient beings · humans · animals · people