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Bookmark or Share- Automaton and its applications | Britannicaautomaton, Mechanical object, either functional (such as a clock) or decorative (such as a miniature singing bird), that is self-operating. Devices set in motion by water, falling weights, and steam were in use in the 1st century.
- automata theory - Encyclopedia BritannicaAutomata theory, body of physical and logical principles underlying the operation of any electromechanical device (an automaton) that converts information from one form into another according to a definite procedure.
- Automaton | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaAutomaton, any of various mechanical objects that are relatively self-operating after they have been set in motion. The majority of automatons are direct representations of creatures and plants or of kinetic aspects of natural phenomena. Learn more about automatons in this article.
- AUTOMATONS (Automatones) - Animate Statues of Greek MythologyIn Greek mythology the Automatons were animate metallic statues of animal, men and monsters crafted by the divine smith Hephaestus and the Athenian craftsman Daedalus. The best of them could think and feel like men.
- Basics of Automata Theory - Stanford UniversityAutomatons are abstract models of machines that perform computations on an input by moving through a series of states or configurations. At each state of the computation, a transition function determines the next configuration on the basis of a finite portion of the present configuration.
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