The phrase "autonomous movements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions or behaviors that are self-directed or independent, often in contexts related to robotics, biology, or social movements.
Example: "The robot was designed to perform autonomous movements, allowing it to navigate its environment without human intervention."
Alternatives: "independent actions" or "self-directed movements".
Certain of these groups have developed into autonomous movements conducted solely by their members.
All over Europe, autonomous movements of shop-floor workers' councils emerged, continuing labour's prewar tradition of pacifism and internationalism.
Apart from hosting groups acting for social change, environmental concern and autonomous movements, it runs English classes for asylum seekers, bike maintenance and repair workshops and social events.
It is designed for collaborating with the surgeon in a natural way, by performing autonomous movements, in order to assist the surgeon during a surgical maneuver.
On the other hand, there were autonomous movements that ranged from back-to-nature groups, such as the German Wandervögel or the British Woodcraft Folk, to consumerist types, such as 1920s flappers or swing kids in the 1930s.
Although a variety of discrete stereotyped response movements occur in plants, particularly in higher forms such as flowering plants, these autonomous movements usually occur too slowly to permit detection by casual observation.
Paxton, W. F. et al. Catalytic nanomotors: autonomous movement of striped nanorods.
Ismagilov, R. F., Schwartz, A., Bowden, N. & Whitesides, G. M. Autonomous movement and self-assembly.
Wu, Y., Wu, Z., Lin, X., He, Q. & Li, J. Autonomous movement of controllable assembled Janus capsule motors.
CYSPP1, a 1956 cybernetic sculpture with autonomous movement, by Nicholas Schöffer.Credit: Artwork courtesy of Frank James Marlot Eleonore Schöffer Collection.
To dissect among these possibilities, we estimated the autonomous movement of the DCL (Fig. 6a,b and Methods).
