Steampunk Names for Robots/Automatons

The word "robot" wasn't invented until Kapek's play, RUR, and my story takes place before that. Automaton is too many syllables to be used as a prefix. Any ideas for Steampunk synonyms for robot?

Right now I'm using "mech". Of course there's "clank" from Girl Genius, but I don't want to take from them.

Thanks.

You could call them "clockworks", with "clock-" as a prefix for things...

*mechanicals

*steambots

I also just lost a whole lot of time looking through

http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/index.html

which may not necessarily give you any names but will certainly help ground you in the science and sociaolgy of the time

Golem could work.

Servants, with a capital S.

It's sort of an old topic, but just to add my own personal opinion...

In worlds where the term "robot" would not come into common use in English, I like to use automaton, myself, and when that could conceivably be too long, shorten it to "autom." I like it because it has the same sort of feel as the word robot, if you understand what I mean.

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