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- noun An
artificial animal .
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The robot, known as an “animat”, interpreted electrical signals from the cells to navigate itself around a laboratory without bumping into obstacles.
Scientist Claims To Be the First Human ‘Infected’ with a Computer Virus | Impact Lab 2010
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The official Dilbert website with Scott Adams’ color comic strips, animat…
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Robo-Rat This little animat (part animal, part robot) drives with its "brain" — 300,000 rat neurons sitting on a bed of electrodes.
15th Anniversary: Big Dog and Robo Rat Join the Bots We Love By Candice Chan 2008
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Robo-Rat This little animat (part animal, part robot) drives with its "brain" — 300,000 rat neurons sitting on a bed of electrodes.
15th Anniversary: Big Dog and Robo Rat Join the Bots We Love 2008
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It therefore tends to frustrate more and more the values of the soul which form the intermediary zone between the body and the mind — those emotional sensitive and animat - ing values which feed the arts, love, and passion, and which are feminine values.
LOVE DENIS DE ROUGEMONT 1968
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Hic est Spiritus vitae cujus vivificus calor animat omnia et fovet et provehit et fecundat.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Hic est Spiritus vitae cujus vivificus calor animat omnia et fovet et provehit et fecundat.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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HOC uide circum supraque quod complexu continet terram solisque exortu capessit candorem, occasu nigret, id quod nostri caelum memorant, Grai perhibent aethera: quidquid est hoc, omnia animat format alit auget creat sepelit recipitque in sese omnia, omniumque idem est pater, 5 indidemque eadem aeque oriuntur de integro atque eodem occidunt.
Genitabile Caelum 1912
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Anima est ubi amat, non ubi animat -- The soul is where it loves, rather than where it lives.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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_Anima est ubi amat, non ubi animat_; (196) the fixing and establishing of the heart on God is a dwelling in him; for the constant and most continued residence of the most serious thoughts and affections, will be their dwelling in their all-fulness and riches of grace in Jesus Christ.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
qroqqa commented on the word animat
At a July conference on in-vitro recording technology in Reutlingen, in Germany, teams from around the world presented projects on culturing brain material and plugging it into simulations and robots, or "animats" as they are known.
—New Scientist, 16 August 2008
August 23, 2008