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''Automatons are machines in the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]]''

Known by their proud creators as "tireless mechanical partners," the '''automatons''' have proven to be the foundation of economic and social development in the 21st century.  An all-purpose robotic product fleet invented by [[Isaac Sumdac]], automatons perform a wide variety of jobs without fear, complaint, or (usually) error.

{{Quote|The robot revolution begins here--on a typical Sumdac Systems assembly line!|Dr. Sumdac boasts of his creations|"[[Transform and Roll Out!]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Transformers Animated===
Dr. Sumdac used technology from the crashed remains of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] as the basis for his robotics empire.  By the early 21st century, [[Detroit]] had become the world's automaton manufacturing capital, a clean and high-tech city.  Robots performed many everyday jobs, including:

* Garbage disposal
* Babysitting
* Dog walking
* Janitorial services
* Food preparation and sales
* Building upkeep
* Police interceptor drones
* Heavy industry, including robot manufacture
* Biomedical research

That last group, Sumdac's "microbots," was designed to enter infected organic systems and destroy the causes of disease, potentially one day allowing [[human]]s to achieve immortality.  However, the Sumdac Systems technicians lost control of the microbot replication process, and the robots mutated their insect host into a giant all-consuming monster that the [[Autobot]]s had to defeat {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out!}}

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