Automaton vs Cyborg - What's the difference?
automaton | cyborg |
A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
A formal system, such as finite automaton.
A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
(science fiction) a person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic
(science fiction) a robot who has an organic past
a human with electronic or bionic prostheses
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*: I would not classify the as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg , if anything.
* 1991 , Timothy K. Smith,
As nouns the difference between automaton and cyborg
is that automaton is a machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions while cyborg is a person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic.automaton
English
(wikipedia automaton)Noun
(en-noun)- Due to her strict adherence to her daily schedule, Jessica was becoming more and more convinced that she was an automaton .
- A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. - Thomas Jefferson
Derived terms
* auton * cellular automatonHyponyms
* robotcyborg
English
(wikipedia cyborg)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1981 , Teri (Pettit at PARC-MAXC), fa.sf-lovers newsgroup, "Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V3"Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love -- He's Got the Printouts", The Wall Street Journal , September 24, front page: *: is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg ". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe a new science entirely of his own devising. * 2002 , Thomas Jones,
"Short Cuts", London Review of Books Vol. 24 No. 18, September 19: *: ... , professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Warwick is no stranger to publicity. His autobiography, I, Cyborg , which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances. With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention. That isn't the main thrust of the book, though, which is rather an account of why he is turning himself into a cyborg . * 2003 , David Simpson,
"Are we still tragic?", guardian.co.uk (exclusive from London Review of Books Vol. 25 No. 7, April 3), April 1: *: The cyborg subject, with its pacemakers, drug regimes and artificial limbs, is usually also the first world middle to upper-class economic subject with a conscious incentive to preserve life for as long as possible under the best possible conditions. * 2003 , Anthony Lane,
"The Current Cinema -- Metal Guru", The New Yorker , July 14: *: On the track of John and Kate is the (Kristanna Loken), a blond female cyborg so metallically single-minded, and so impervious to blandishment and punishment alike, that, from where I was sitting, she looked to be our best hope of getting a woman into the Oval Office.