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.

automatism

plural of automaton

plural of Büchi automaton

(computing theory) A type of ω-automaton that extends a finite automaton to infinite inputs. It accepts an infinite input sequence if there exists a run of the automaton that visits (at least) one of the final states infinitely often.

plural of cellular automaton

plural of pushdown automaton

(computing theory) An automaton with finitely many states that can also use one unbounded stack of memory; the automaton may only push, pop, or read the top of the stack. Abbreviation: PDA.

(computing theory) An automaton consisting of cells arranged in a regular grid, in one or more dimensions. Each application of an associated rule creates a new generation, where the cells have a new configuration of values.

Like an automaton; robotic.