Autonomous
adjective
The ability to make decisions and act independently, without needing to ask others.
As a teenager, she became more autonomous and wanted to make her own decisions.
Often appears as...
- autonomous decision-making
- autononous leadership
adjective
A system or machine having the power to operate independently, without being controlled by something else.
Autonomous vehicles are designed to navigate and operate without a human driver.
Often appears as...
- autonomous vehicle
- autonomous robot
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Technical
adjective
Applied to regions or bodies that have the power to govern themselves or control their own affairs.
Scotland has the status of an autonomous region within the United Kingdom.
Often appears as...
- autonomous region
- autonomous government
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Political
adjective
The ability to make decisions and act independently, without needing to ask others.
As a teenager, she became more autonomous and wanted to make her own decisions.
Often appears as...
- autonomous decision-making
- autononous leadership
adjective
A system or machine having the power to operate independently, without being controlled by something else.
Autonomous vehicles are designed to navigate and operate without a human driver.
Often appears as...
- autonomous vehicle
- autonomous robot
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Applied to regions or bodies that have the power to govern themselves or control their own affairs.
Scotland has the status of an autonomous region within the United Kingdom.
Often appears as...
- autonomous region
- autonomous government
Usage tips
Political
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Personal Growth
Indicates increased self-reliance and less dependence on others.
Moving out for college, she embraced her autonomous lifestyle.
Pro Tip 2/2Responsibility
Implies personal accountability for one's actions and choices.
He took an autonomous decision to change his career path.
Pro Tip 1/2Personal Growth
Indicates increased self-reliance and less dependence on others.
Moving out for college, she embraced her autonomous lifestyle.
Pro Tip 2/2Responsibility
Implies personal accountability for one's actions and choices.
He took an autonomous decision to change his career path.
Pro Tip 1/2Personal Growth
Indicates increased self-reliance and less dependence on others.
Moving out for college, she embraced her autonomous lifestyle.
Pro Tip 2/2Responsibility
Implies personal accountability for one's actions and choices.
He took an autonomous decision to change his career path.
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Meet the dazzling flying...
these are some of the potential applications for commercial drones, and their enablers are the capabilities being developed at research facilities around the world. For example, before aerial package delivery entered our social consciousness, an autonomous fleet of flying machines built a six-meter-tall tower
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Inside the Green Berets:...
being made by those who are who are waging that war the one thing that strikes you when you get out there is just how kind of resourceful these guys are how autonomous and how alone I mean how on their own they are yeah we have the most powerful military the world's ever created but these guys
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A bold idea to replace...
to create autonomous looms. And in those autonomous looms, he gained control. He could now make fabrics that were more complex and more sophisticated than the ones they were able to do by hand. But also, by winning that industrial war, he laid out what has become the blueprint of automation.
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Would you sacrifice one...
But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one. Meanwhile, governments are researching autonomous military drones
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Robots that fly ... and...
And again, everything is autonomous, and all Quentin has to do is to give them a blueprint of the design that he wants to build. So all these experiments you've seen thus far, all these demonstrations, have been done with the help of motion-capture systems.
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How the blockchain will...
It does this by converting a lot of our uncertainties into certainties. So I think we need to start preparing ourselves, because we are about to face a world where distributed, autonomous institutions have quite a significant role.
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Meet Spot, the robot dog...
And here's mobile manipulation, where we've put an arm on the robot, and it's finding its way through the door. Now, one of the important things about making autonomous robots is to make them not do just exactly what you say,
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Elon Musk: The future...
in a world where cars are electric and where they're self-driving, there may end up being more cars on the roads on any given hour than there are now? Yeah, exactly. A lot of people think that when you make cars autonomous,
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Why we shouldn’t fear...
with minimal autonomy that's IBM's Watson the program to beat the world champion in jeopardy but didn't even know it one not very threatening think about computer viruses they're dangerous they're autonomous but they're not
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Diving 1000m Below The...
about the species and habitats of what lie beneath by sending robots or autonomous vehicles to gather information on their behalf all on rare occasions she gets to go down there herself in a submersible with one tiny round
Video examples
Meet the dazzling flying...
these are some of the potential applications for commercial drones, and their enablers are the capabilities being developed at research facilities around the world. For example, before aerial package delivery entered our social consciousness, an autonomous fleet of flying machines built a six-meter-tall tower
Video examples
Inside the Green Berets:...
being made by those who are who are waging that war the one thing that strikes you when you get out there is just how kind of resourceful these guys are how autonomous and how alone I mean how on their own they are yeah we have the most powerful military the world's ever created but these guys
Video examples
A bold idea to replace...
to create autonomous looms. And in those autonomous looms, he gained control. He could now make fabrics that were more complex and more sophisticated than the ones they were able to do by hand. But also, by winning that industrial war, he laid out what has become the blueprint of automation.
Video examples
Would you sacrifice one...
But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one. Meanwhile, governments are researching autonomous military drones
Video examples
Robots that fly ... and...
And again, everything is autonomous, and all Quentin has to do is to give them a blueprint of the design that he wants to build. So all these experiments you've seen thus far, all these demonstrations, have been done with the help of motion-capture systems.
Video examples
How the blockchain will...
It does this by converting a lot of our uncertainties into certainties. So I think we need to start preparing ourselves, because we are about to face a world where distributed, autonomous institutions have quite a significant role.
Video examples
Meet Spot, the robot dog...
And here's mobile manipulation, where we've put an arm on the robot, and it's finding its way through the door. Now, one of the important things about making autonomous robots is to make them not do just exactly what you say,
Video examples
Elon Musk: The future...
in a world where cars are electric and where they're self-driving, there may end up being more cars on the roads on any given hour than there are now? Yeah, exactly. A lot of people think that when you make cars autonomous,
Video examples
Why we shouldn’t fear...
with minimal autonomy that's IBM's Watson the program to beat the world champion in jeopardy but didn't even know it one not very threatening think about computer viruses they're dangerous they're autonomous but they're not
Video examples
Diving 1000m Below The...
about the species and habitats of what lie beneath by sending robots or autonomous vehicles to gather information on their behalf all on rare occasions she gets to go down there herself in a submersible with one tiny round
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Aubrey de Grey
English Author
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
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St. Vincent
American Musician
A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.
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Alissa Quart
American Writer
Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.
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Penelope Mitchell
Australian Actress
Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.
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Vaclav Havel
Czechoslovakian Leader
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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Anne McClain
American Astronaut
We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.
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Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I'd be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots.
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James Gosling
Canadian Scientist
The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.
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Masayoshi Son
Japanese Businessman
The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.
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Ava DuVernay
American Director
The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.
Quote examples
Aubrey de Grey
English Author
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
Quote examples
St. Vincent
American Musician
A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.
Quote examples
Alissa Quart
American Writer
Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.
Quote examples
Penelope Mitchell
Australian Actress
Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.
Quote examples
Vaclav Havel
Czechoslovakian Leader
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Quote examples
Anne McClain
American Astronaut
We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.
Quote examples
Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I'd be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots.
Quote examples
James Gosling
Canadian Scientist
The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.
Quote examples
Masayoshi Son
Japanese Businessman
The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.
Quote examples
Ava DuVernay
American Director
The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.
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