How do you construct a minimum state automaton to a given automaton?

It can be anything from a dude making cheese to a dudette sewing a sock. :)

In a word: robot. It's basically a robot. Or more specifically, a self-operating machine, often used to simulate bio-mechanical action, such as a person or animal moving.

a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.2.a person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence.3.something...

The only difference between a NDFSA (non-deterministic finite-state automation) and a DFSA (deterministic finite-state automation) is that a NDFSA can be in several states at once. Therefore, to...

it performs a set of motions either by the 4 mechanisms of rotary, reciprocating, linear and oscillating