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human
[Elder Scrolls] Why do we not see more machines being powered by magic?

Why would they need horses when they could create combustible engines and shit with magic? I'm not talking about weapons, just transport and industry. Mills, factories, and farming would be so much easier if they used magic.
gpt
Well, there are Dwemer automata (they aren't sentient or sapient, but they are powered by Magicka). Then there are the Orrerys, the Battlespires, the Sunbirds... Vehk-ships. Magical forges, scrying arrays, traps. Morrowind had an extensive teleport system which could be used by those who paid for it, there are the Falmeri wayshrines...

There's plenty of it. The problem stems from the less magical nature of Men. We see lots of more esoteric and automated uses for Magic by the Mer, but we've only really seen one Merish province, and what we saw was really just the frontier.