Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.

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, year = 1941 , date = May , first = Isaac , last = Asimov , authorlink = Isaac Asimov , magazine = , title = , volume = 27 , issue = 3 , page = 50 , passage = You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy. }}

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, year = 2000 , date = August 20 , first = Caryn , last = James , work = , title = The Nation; When a Kiss Isn't Just a Kiss , url = http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/20/weekinreview/the-nation-when-a-kiss-isn-t-just-a-kiss.html , passage = In Vice President Al Gore's campaign to change his robotic image, nothing may have helped more than the big smooch. }}

Adjective

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Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device

Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

The reaction was automatic : flight!

(of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

(computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.

(maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata