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The name automaton is often given to a machine which imitates the appearance and movements of a man or an animal. In general it thus concerns a mechanism which carries its own source of motive power (a spring for example) and which carries out certain acts, always the same ones, without being subjected to any external influences.
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Torres y Quevedo, L. (1982). Essays on Automatics. In: Randell, B. (eds) The Origins of Digital Computers. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61812-3_6
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