Meanwhile, Vector Industries, the largest corporation in existence and the primary arms manufacturer for the Galaxy Federation, is currently researching new ways to use nanotechnology to build an unstoppable anti-Gnosis battle android, code-named KOS-MOS.

Interestingly, the android character Data is transformed into a cyborg in the film too by having organic components integrated into him ( the reverse of the Borg, who were organic beings who had synthetic components made part of them ).

The Daleks unearth their creator — who had apparently been in suspended animation since his " death " in Genesis — to help them break a logical impasse in their war against the android Movellans.

This story is an allegory ; the android was primitive scholasticism, which was broken by the Summa of St Thomas, the daring innovator who first substituted the absolute law of reason for arbitrary divinity, by formulating that axiom which we cannot repeat too often, since it comes from such a master: " A thing is not just because God wills it, but God wills it because it is just.

The real and serious android of the ancients was a secret which they kept hidden from all eyes, and Mesmer was the first who dared to divulge it ; it was the extension of the will of the magus into another body, organised and served by an elementary spirit ; in more modern and intelligible terms, it was a magnetic subject.

His moral quandary deepens after working briefly with Phil Resch, who Deckard first believes is an android but then learns is a particularly callous fellow human bounty hunter.

In the book, Rick Deckard ( the main character ) is at one point tricked into following an android, who believes himself to be a police officer, to a faked police station.

The android Data, who recently installed a chip that enables emotions, helps engineer Geordi La Forge search the station.

Picard and a team attempt to reach engineering to disable the Borg with corrosive coolant used in the warp core, but the android Data is captured and meets the queen of the Borg collective, who gains his trust by giving part of him human skin.

Designed and built by Doctor Noonien Soong, Data is a sentient, fully functional android who serves as the second officer and chief operations officer aboard the starships USS Enterprise-D and USS Enterprise-E. His positronic brain allows him impressive computational capabilities.

The ship's robot is irritated at Anrack, who is actually a malfunctioning android, but his mood changes when Gloria arrives.

This involves a human who has been either willingly or unwillingly turned into an android.

There is a further divide between those who prefer an android to appear human-like and those who would prefer a more mechanical looking robot, i. e. with a metallic surface.

The Vision had a complicated history, being born of the dead android body of the original Human Torch, and the mind of the dead human Wonder Man, not to mention being programmed to be a killing machine by the armageddon-happy sentient robot Ultron, who in his turn had been inadvertently created by scientist Henry Pym, originally as a lab assistant.

* Russell Crowe-SID 6. 7, the main antagonist who is first a virtual reality entity but later becomes a regenerating android in reality.

Another common theme is that of dehumanised, cyborg or android soldiers: human, or quasi-human beings who are themselves weapons.

Llewellyn is married to the novelist Judy Pascoe, author of Our Father Who Art in The Tree, who starred alongside him in the Red Dwarf episode " Camille ", playing female android Camille.

The Prime Kang then appears and takes the android Avenger the Vision prisoner, and battles both the Avengers and a new foe — Terminatrix — who is revealed to be Kang's old lover Ravonna.

* There was an android called Sandman who was created by Puppet Master and Mad Thinker to fight the Fantastic Four.

The Questor Tapes was a television movie and pilot for a series about an android ( portrayed by Robert Foxworth ) who is searching for his creator and his purpose, which turns out to be ( like that of Gary Seven ) to help mankind avoid disasters.

She can often be found talking to Krystal ( a broken android who Marion helps repair ).

Two episodes also deal with a one-sided war between Nuku Nuku and another android named Eimi, who suffers from an over-the-top inferiority complex and envies Nuku Nuku's more stable design.

: The brilliant, if quite eccentric, scientist who created a prototype android with funding from his wife's company.

She is the new leader / co-leader with Ultimate Captain America of the team in The Ultimates 3 miniseries, and now sports a crimson-and-gold outfit and a mask, similar to her 616-Wasp counterpart, and she begins to reconcile with Hank ( who begins a new identity as " YellowJacket "), and later with the Ultimates and Wolverine stop the plans of Hank's android, Ultron.

As android technology improved, bounty hunters had to apply an empathy test — the Voigt-Kampff test — to distinguish humans from androids, by measuring empathetic responses, or lack thereof, from questions designed to evoke an emotional response, often including animal subjects and themes.

According to Star Trek: Countdown ( 2009 ), Data ( in the form of the android B-4 ) assumed command of the Enterprise after Captain Picard retired from Starfleet to become the Ambassador to Vulcan.

" Robert Bloch has the android Ruk free himself by recalling how his cohort of androids had freed themselves from control by their makers, The Old Ones, long before, exclaiming " That was the equation!

Her storyline sees her simultaneously become the object of Lex Luthor's ( Michael Rosenbaum ) obsessions-after she saved him from drowning in the dam's destruction-and Jimmy Olsen's ( Aaron Ashmore ) affections, suffer a bout of amnesia, discover her father's ( Christopher Heyerdahl ) sinister motives and become a target of evil android Brainiac ( James Marsters ).

* Star Trek Nemesis ( 2002 ): Although not mentioned by name in the film, Palmdale was the filming location of all scenes on the fictional planet Kolarus III where the " away team " from the Starship Enterprise locates parts of an android that resembles Commander Data.

In the third volume of the series, it was revealed that the U. S. Government had created the android Serpentor ( or, as he is called here, Serpent O. R., standing for Organic Robot ) using DNA from great historical war leaders and parts from Megatron.

* Ida ( Middleverse ), a soulless android from outer space masquerading as a librarian in the Middleverse

This concept has been said to have implications for mind uploading or mind transference, as it indirectly addresses the question of whether an exact replica of one's brain patterns created within an alternate brain, an android brain, or a virtual universe is the same being as the person it was copied from, or another being entirely.

The Grandmaster then summoned the Sub-Mariner, Captain America and the android Human Torch from that period as his unwitting pawns to battle the Avengers.

He later realized his potential when he saved his team-mates from the Super-Adaptoid, defeating the android by tricking it into trying to copy his artificial powers.

Capturing Kirk and preventing him from warning Spock, Korby later attempts to take over the Enterprise by creating an android duplicate of Kirk to further his mad quest to populate the universe with androids but the plan backfired.

* Janelle Monáe's Metropolis concept album series ( I, II and III ) is written from the perspective of an android from the year 2719.

Such instances include: several of the Wolves carrying weapons that resemble lightsabers and a " messenger robot " similar in demeanor to the android C-3PO from the Star Wars movies, with the look of an Isaac Asimov robot ; the Wolves themselves seeming to bear a physical resemblance to Doctor Doom from the Marvel Comics comic books, and flying grenades named " sneetches " that are stated as being from the " Harry Potter " product line ( a direct reference to the Golden Snitch from the J. K. Rowling books, and to the Dr. Seuss characters ).

The story begins when genius inventor Kyusaku Natsume transplants the brain of a cat found by his son Ryunosuke on Christmas Eve, into a schoolgirl android that he created and subsequently stole from his former employer, Mishima Heavy Industries ( owned by his estranged wife and Ryunosuke's mother, Akiko Natsume ).

Nuku Nuku started out as just a stray cat Ryunosuke stumbled upon taking a leak while on the run with his father Kyusaku after retrieving ( stealing ) a prototype android of Kyusaku's own design to keep it from being sold off to the military by Ryu's mother Akiko.

* Episode 11-Mount Hang ' Em High Kelly and Jonathan go to Mount Hang ' Em High to see the android maker Gibson to get a new android.

The Deukalion, a Garfish class cruiser converted into a science vessel to record and study the test, was heavily damaged by the resulting blast and all aboard were killed save one android named Janice Em, which was later repaired.

Despite being more than 800 million kilometres ( 500 million miles ) from the detonation, the SDF-3 sustains heavy damage and everyone, except the android Janice Em, is killed on board the science vessel Deukalion.

Ultimately, Edwards perishes when android Janice Em holographically disguises herself as Minmei in order to get close to Edwards, then sacrifices herself to tumble him into the Genesis Pit, ending his life.