# Learning Automata
**Domain:** Cybernetics / Education Technology / AI History
**Doc Type:** Technology Concept Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[Teaching Machines]], [[Pedagogical Cybernetics]], [[Machine Intelligence Continuum]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]
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## Definition
Adaptive or rule-governed machines studied as models or instruments of learning.
## Kybernetiks Context
The term connects West German cybernetics, early teaching systems and the longer transition from mechanical instruction to AI-mediated adaptation.
## Backlinks
[[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]