Machina is Latin for machine. In search of an all consuming term for Robots, cyborgs, androids, robotic exoskeletons and such, I stumbled across this word in Humanities class when we were talking about plays. I gleaned this from the term "Deus Ex Machina" aka"the God in the machine". This was a plot device used in ancient Greece and is still sometimes used today. Basically in these ancient Greek plays, the plot and tension would climb until only the intervention of a God could resolve the situation. So back to my original tread: I have adopted machina to refer to anything robotic, robot like, cybernetic etc. It's just easier to group them all together rather than saying "look at the cyborg/robot/android/Ironman over there." You still can use the other terms, but I think that it's more convenient and a better way to refer to a group of metal and flesh beings. So from now on when ever I refer to machina, you know what I mean. (It also sounds cooler too.)
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