Automaton

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Introduction1

KiwiCo (YouTube Channel)
KiwiCo (Official Website)

Dictionary

automaton : a machine or control mechanism designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations or respond to encoded instructions — Merriam-Webster   See also OneLook

Thesaurus

Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords

Encyclopedia

Automaton (plural: automata or automatons) is a self-operating machine. The word is sometimes used to describe a robot, more specifically an autonomous robot. An alternative spelling, now obsolete, is automation. — Wikipedia

Automaton (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Portal

Traditional and Modern Automata (Hanns-Martin Wagner)

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Inspiration

Talks about Automata (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)

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Innovation

Commerce

Golden Age of Automata (Theriault’s Antique Doll Auctions)

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Preservation

Morris Museum (YouTube Channel)

Guinness Collection: Mechanical Music & Automata (Morris Museum)

The MAD Museum (YouTube Channel)
The MAD Museum (Official Website)

History of Automata (MAD Museum)
Automata in Greek Mythology (MAD Museum)
Automata during the Middle Ages (MAD Museum)
Automata through the Renaissance (MAD Museum)
17th & 18th Century Automata (MAD Museum)
The Golden Age of Automata (MAD Museum)
Automata in Modern Times (MAD Museum)

Notes from the Curator’s Office: Of Automatons and Automata (Museum of Unnatural History)
The Role of Automata in the History of Technology (Silvio A. Bedini, University of Virginia)

Man-Machine from the Greeks to the Computer (Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas)

Automata (World History Encyclopedia)
History of Automata (Wikipedia)

Library

DDC: 629.8 Automata (Library Thing)
Subject: Automata (Library Thing)

Subject: Automata (Open Library)

Subject: Automata (Library of Congress)

Subject: Automata (WorldCat)

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Participation

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (YouTube Channel)
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (Official Website)

Making Automata (Cabaret Mechanical Theatre)

Education

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

Organization

Mechanical Adventures (Facebook)
Automata Automaton (Facebook)

Event

AutomataCon (YouTube Channel)

AutomataCon (Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ)

News

Automata (JSTOR)
Automata (EurekaAlert, AAAS)
Automata (NPR Archives)

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Related

Here are links to pages about closely related subjects.

Media

Function Communications Computation Storage Creation Simulation
Analog Mail Device Paper Type, Print Automaton
Electronic Network Calculator Tape Record Elektro
Digital Internet Computer
Hardware Modem Microprocessor Memory Peripheral Robot, XR
Software Service (Web) Program (OS, SS) Database Application AI, VW

Format Multimedia (Video, Animation) Image (Object) Scent, Flavor, Audio (Text) Haptic, “Other

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Notes

1.   The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.