In general, automatons are designed to arouse interest through their visual appeal and then to inspire surprise and awe through the apparent magic of their seemingly spontaneous movement. The majority of automatons are direct representations of creatures and plants or of kinetic aspects of natural phenomena.

What do automatons do in Frost punk?

If you get the Engineer Automatons upgrade, they can be used to keep Workshops running day and night, so that you're always making research progress. They can be used in place of emergency shifts to avoid raising discontent.

How does a automata work?

Automatons are abstract models of machines that perform computations on an input by moving through a series of states or configurations. At each state of the computation, a transition function determines the next configuration on the basis of a finite portion of the present configuration.