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Electronics and Automation

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Introduction to Automation and Electronics. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Physics and Biology

  • Mechanics: inherent activity of an automatic mechanism or automaton
  • Biology: unconscious or involuntary actions (reflexes, tropisms, taxies)
  • Biology: includes instincts and conditioning
  • Human physiology: identified with tics

Engineering

  • Automation or control engineering
  • Industrial automation
  • Automated theorem proving
  • Automatic systems in computing
  • Machine learning
  • Automated reasoning
  • Machine translation
  • Automatic regulation
  • Automatic indexing
  • Automatic programming
  • Automated planning
  • Automatic differentiation

Mechanisms and Devices

  • Automatic transmission
  • Automated teller machine (ATM)
  • Autopilot
  • Automated external defibrillator (AED)
  • Automatic answering machine
  • Automatic lathe
  • Automatic light vehicle
  • Automatic Signal and Braking
  • Automatic replenishment
  • Automatic Emergency Braking

Psychology and Medicine

  • Psychology: automatic behavior
  • Psychology: mental automatism (Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, 1920s)
  • Psychology: psychological automatism (Pierre Janet, 1889)
  • Medicine: set of mild unconscious behaviors

Art and Music

  • Art: immediate and intuitive creative process without the intervention of the rationalizing capacity
  • Art: Surrealist automatism
  • Art: automatic writing and automatic painting
  • Music: automatic musical instrument
  • Music: bands such as Automática (Uruguay) and Automático (Chile)
  • Music: album Placer Automático (Papanegro) and song Automático (María Becerra)

Law and Weaponry

  • Law: determined effect of laws and legal acts
  • Weaponry: automatic weapon, semi-automatic weapon, automatic cannon, and Browning automatic rifle

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  1. 01

    In physics and biology, what is an automatism in a mechanism?

    Movement or activity inherent to an automaton.

  2. 02

    In living beings, what types of actions define automatism?

    Unconscious or involuntary actions.

  3. 03

    Examples of automatisms in living beings (biology):

    Reflexes, tropisms, taxis.

  4. 04

    In human physiology, what is considered automatism?

    Tics.

  5. 05

    In engineering, what is the name of control engineering?

    Automatic engineering.

  6. 06

    In computing, what is the name for machine learning?

    Machine learning.

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