The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mechanize \Mech"an*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mechanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Mechanizing.] [Cf. F. m['e]chaniser.]
To cause to be mechanical.
--Shelley.To introduce machinery into (a process) in order to reduce human effort or improve uniformity or quality of the result; especially, To cause to be accomplished by a mechanical means which requires little or no human supervision; to automate.
Hence: (Mil.) To equip (an armed force) with tanks or other vehicles.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of mechanize English)
Usage examples of "mechanizing".
She wants you dead because you encouraged local democracy and because you stood against her plans for mechanizing this planet.
The more people started humanizing their machines, the closer they came to mechanizing humanity, to forgetting what it was that made living beings superior.