Operating by itself with little or no human control, or designed to run without direct human operation.
From 'automate,' coined in the 1950s from 'automatic,' which comes from Greek 'automatos' (self-acting) from 'autos' (self) and 'matos' (moving).
The word 'automated' is surprisingly new—it was basically invented in the 1950s during the industrial automation boom when factories started replacing workers with machines. Before that, people said 'automatic,' but 'automated' specifically means we deliberately made something do the work humans used to do.
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