| VEX creations |
LA Times Daily |
02 Sep 2026 |
| Waymo cars, e.g. |
New York Times Midi |
25 Aug 2026 |
| High-tech workers? |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Jan 2026 |
| Some NASA workers |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Dec 2025 |
| Mechanical workers (6) |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Jun 2025 |
| Regional chief boots silly unpaid workers |
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| 2005 animated film featuring the voices of Mel Brooks and Ewan McGregor (6) |
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| From the Czech word for "forced labour", What first appeared in a 1920 play written by Karel Capek? (6) |
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| In science fiction, these machines resemble human beings (5) |
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| Mechanical humans |
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| According to the adverts, the Fiat Strada was 'handbuilt' by them (6) |
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| Artificial people start running with kinky boots |
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| Droids in "Star Wars," essentially |
USA Today |
17 Sep 2024 |
| WALL-E and EVE, e.g. |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Sep 2024 |
| R2D2, et al. |
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| Machines capable of carrying out complex actions automatically (6) |
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| Man-made replacements of man |
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| High-tech workers? |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Machines built to carry out complex tasks |
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| Artificial people (6) |
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| Automated machines |
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| Comedy film with Jack Whitehall and Shailene Woodley (6) |
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| Many sci-fi characters |
LA Times Daily |
13 Dec 2023 |
| The Stepford wives in "The Stepford Wives," it seems |
New York Times |
03 Dec 2023 |
| R2-D2 and Wall-E, e.g. |
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| Many "Westworld" characters |
LA Times Daily |
24 Sep 2023 |
| Many modern warehouse workers |
New York Times |
05 Jul 2023 |
| Metallic factory workers |
Newsday |
27 Jun 2023 |
| R2-D2 and C-3PO, for two |
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| Metal workers? |
New York Times |
04 May 2023 |
| Workers that need power |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Oct 2022 |
| "Love, Death & ___," animated anthology series from Netflix that has won four Annie Awards |
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| Decepticons, e.g |
Wall Street Journal |
19 May 2022 |
| Automatons |
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| Certain cordless vacuums |
Newsday |
22 Aug 2021 |
| High-tech workers? |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Jul 2021 |
| Automatons |
Wall Street Journal |
05 May 2021 |
| Automatons |
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| Modern assembly line workers |
Universal |
14 Jan 2021 |
| Iron people |
Newsday |
13 Dec 2020 |
| Metallic factory workers |
Newsday |
01 Dec 2020 |
| Workers made of metal |
Newsday |
11 May 2020 |
| '___ in disguise' ('Transformers' theme song lyric) |
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| Mechanical men |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Mar 2020 |
| C-3PO and R2-D2, for example |
USA Today |
06 Mar 2020 |
| Mechanical beings |
Newsday |
24 Dec 2019 |
| British in origin, southern individuals that are power-driven? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Oct 2019 |
| Turmoil coming up about second-class sets of lights in Durban |
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| Mechanical beings |
Universal |
12 Feb 2019 |
| R2-D2 and others |
Premier Sunday |
13 Jan 2019 |
| Mechanical beings |
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| They're supposedly thwarted by captchas |
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| Hazmat team members, often |
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| Hazmat team members, often |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jul 2018 |
| Hazmat team members, often |
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| Sci-fi servants |
Newsday |
06 Oct 2017 |
| Some factory workers |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Aug 2017 |
| Stepford wives, for example |
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| Metal men |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Nov 2016 |
| Automata |
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| Some factory workers |
LA Times Daily |
28 Feb 2016 |
| Bishop in Wesker play and film |
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| Automatons |
LA Times Daily |
24 Nov 2015 |
| Steal good books from school run by scientists? |
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| Automatons |
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| Heartless men wrongly take over Times, heartlessly |
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| Some NASA designs |
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| Workers made of metal |
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| Sci-fi workers |
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| Men of steel? |
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| Subject for Asimov |
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| Cleaning conveniences |
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| Some factory workers |
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| Bomb defusers, often |
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| Some bomb squad members |
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| Iron men? |
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| "WALL-E" characters |
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| Iron men |
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| 2005 animated film |
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| Mechanical men |
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| Androids |
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| Unpaid factory workers |
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| Anthropomorphic beings, often |
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| Assembly-line workers |
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| Automatons |
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| Automatons |
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| Some bomb defusers |
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| Labor savers |
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| 2005 animated film |
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| Asimov wrote about them |
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| Androids |
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| Asimov subjects, often |
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| Cheap factory workers |
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| R2-D2 and C-3PO |
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| Some bomb squad members |
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| Certain sci-fi crew |
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| Some factory workers |
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| Roles in Spielberg's "A.I." |
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| Unspontaneous ones |
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| Terminators, in film |
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| Some factory workers |
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| "A.I." characters |
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| C-3PO and R2-D2 |
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| Auto assembly machines |
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| Assembly-line machines |
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| C-3PO and R2-D2 |
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| Iron men? |
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| Cheap factory workers |
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| Some bomb squad members |
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| Asimov subjects, often |
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| Ideal servants, perhaps |
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| Labor savers |
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| "R.U.R." characters |
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| Automatons |
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| Androids, e.g. |
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| Star Wars characters |
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| Characters in "Star Wars" |
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| "Star Wars" figures |
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| Part of Capek's "R.U.R." |
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| Science-fiction figures |
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| Soulless men. |
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| Characters in Capek's "R.U.R." |
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| V-1 weapons. |
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| Pilotless planes. |
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| "Tranformers" extras |
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| Mechanical ones. |
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