"machine moves" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence such as "The machine moves slowly and steadily across the field."
The machine moves the temperature around the tubes.
"He really gets what fashion is, and how that machine moves forward.
As the piston of the machine moves, it shears gas off the walls of the chamber.
Once a bankroll has been entered, the state machine moves to bet_state.
Once a bet amount has been entered, the state machine moves to user_play_state.
If the next entry is a dot, then the machine moves the 'I' state.
BEST GADGET We have a prosciutto-cutting machine, moved by hand, not an electric one.
Not that the gears of that machine moved altogether smoothly either.
The Democrats' own media fundraising and media machine, Move On, has visibly adopted the cause.
"How do you make a machine move with that kind of versatility and dexterity?" Dr. Trimmer asks.
What the government should be doing is thinking concretely how to get the investment and innovation machine moving.
