Golems are magical automatons that were typically made from earthen materials and given motion through empowered runes. They were especially common on Acetate after the quartzpike plague, where they were used for vast amounts of manual labor in the cleanup and reconstruction of society, but became less popular over time as technology advanced and runecrafting fell to the wayside in roner society.
Golems are akin to robots in that they have no thoughts or emotions of their own, and no souls.