Sentence examples for automaton from inspiring English sources

Murphy is often described as a consummate communicator, and in person he is far more fun, interesting and (apparently) open than the average party automaton.

Buck did not deny his behaviour but claimed a Zolpiden sleeping pill reacted violently with alcohol, turning him into a "non-insane automaton".

He should now inherit daddy's seat but he is being investigated for tax evasion.In this section The automaton goes on and on Tariffs and tortillas Wolf pack Stop all the clocks ReprintsHow can someone like Mr Lobão get such an important job?

This was capable of recording the signals sent by 32 nerve cells at the same time.In this section Mind vs matter Drowning in data A cellular automaton Sex in a bottle ReprintsHe implanted his electrode arrays in the brains of half a dozen rats.

Kitty Dukakis tried to dispel her husband's reputation as a robotic calculating machine by dubbing him her "passionate partner"; now Tipper loyally boasts about the sexual tiger lurking within her own besuited automaton.

It hardly sounds like the basis for a new science, but in 1984 Mr Wolfram came across one cellular automaton, known as Rule 30, that produced chaotic, unpredictable output despite the simple rules that govern its operation.

Otherwise theory is nothing more than post-hoc speculation.That said, one of the most impressive parts of the book is Mr Wolfram's guess that the universe might, in fact, be a giant cellular automaton at the subatomic level.

Respected for his competence, he has all the charisma of an automaton.

The men who made them, as Gaby Wood relates in "Living Dolls", were driven by the desire to play God.Jacques de Vaucanson, a French inventor, made his name in the 1730s by building a flute-playing automaton that (with the aid of a set of bellows) actually breathed.

But nothing is as good as sex for stirring the pot.In this section Mind vs matter Drowning in data A cellular automaton Sex in a bottle ReprintsThat is why Pim Stemmer and his colleagues at Maxygen have been trying to reproduce a form of sexual exchange in a test tube.

Engineers in Munich have built a pool-playing automaton that can pot five balls in a row.