mechanical man


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Synonyms for mechanical man

an automaton that resembles a human being

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While Take That had a giant mechanical elephant for their tour two years ago, this time round they have a huge mechanical man, known as Om.
The book is organized around six themes: Flying Machines (the birds' flight) ; Hydraulics (water as a force); Architecture (manipulating and controlling space); War Machines (launching assaults and providing for defense); Mechanical Inventories (weight and movement); and Mechanical Man (robotics: human forms as machines).
Gehringer's nickname was "the Mechanical Man," but he was less the Terminator than Tik-tok of Oz.
Bussler was planning to talk about Westinghouse robots, including Elektro, the mechanical man of the 1939 World's Fair.
Children from primary and middle schools around Worcestershire will see the mechanical man dishing out advice as he takes his mini road layout with him.
Holding down the other side of the scales are events that reflect the diversity of the entertainment at most country fairs: The Flying Wallendas; two demolition derbies, a karaoke contest; racing pigs, a lumberjack show, the Mechanical Man, a vaudeville show, puppet shows and magicians.
Reno Descartes, for example, seems to have been more interested in "mechanical man" as a metaphor than as a possibility.
In a rarely seen manuscript of his unpublished book The Mechanical Man he wrote: 'I made my experiments in Paris before the people and the press who witnessed my achievements.
Surfing Zucchinis who become jealous, Tom the Mechanical Man, and a true telling of cops shutting down an Arab On Radar show.
If one had a penny in those days, he or she could put it in a gum machine and watch the mechanical man make a full turn and deliver a candy-coated piece of gum.
Inside there was: a milk-bar, in the right breast; a planetarium showing the Milky Way, in the left breast; a mechanical man watching TV, in her heart; a movie-house showing a Greta Garbo film, in her arm; and an art gallery with fake old masters, in one leg.
Having been traumatized himself by the murder of his own father, Sam is altered into a mechanical man, largely vacated of visible feelings, whose eerie emptiness is both invasive and educational.
"The Bell Tower" is a story of the artist Bannadonna, who, in creating a mechanical man, strives to rival the power of God.