Of course I'd adore to see you, but I am a soul-less, will-less automaton.
Together with his Siberian Mouse and Egyptian Lizard, the fancifully-named insect was a life-size automaton with perfectly realistic movement.
Or if you do, prepare for nightmares of being chased at 18-miles an hour by a gas-powered steely automaton.
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The aim is to produce an automaton that could help people do difficult jobs underwater shutting off leaking oil valves, for example.
It was, of course, a trick a hidden human operator controlled the automaton's movements but some observers equated its chess prowess with intelligence.
With the progress in robotic technology, the humanoid automaton R2D2 featured in the Star Wars films could soon become a regular household feature.
Often the mechanical theatrics took inspiration from popular theatrical events like the circus, featuring automaton clowns performing acrobatic feats to the accompaniment of music.
The latest addition to Bleak House was a clockwork automaton of a skeleton playing the accordion, which del Toro had bought for sixteen thousand dollars.
During my stay, my water glass was always topped off and my cosmetics stood at attention, yet no staff member I encountered was an automaton.
Towering over the machine, whose controls he manipulates, the lean and powerful automaton is given an unashamed phallic authority by the drill-shaft thrusting down from his loins.
Cool as they are, those functions aren't going to mean a thing when Mr. Automaton is lost in the wilderness, damaged and without a helping human hand in sight.
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In YouTube videos that have racked up 18 million views, the robotics firm sets its four-legged, 235-pound, deer-size automaton climbing over rocks, slipping on ice and stumbling through mud.
De Vaucanson built two astonishing humanoid musicians--one played the flute and the other played pipes and drum--yet the automaton that brought him the most fame was a life-size mechanical duck.
In the history of European clock technology, the monk is an early and very rare example of a self-acting automaton, one whose mechanism is wholly contained and hidden within its body.
Not that automaton birds were ever threatened with extinction.
The Antiquorum automaton includes a clock, which activates the automaton every half hour, triggering the bird to sing one of seven popular tunes (as live canaries of the time were routinely trained to do).
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