Although " android " is used almost universally to refer to both sexes, and those of no particular sex, " android " technically refers to the male form, while " gynoid " is the feminine form.

The term " android " can mean either one of these, while a cyborg (" cybernetic organism " or " bionic man ") would be a creature that is a combination of organic and mechanical parts.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

The T-1000 ( which is said to be made completely of a liquid metal ) of Terminator 2: Judgment Day is definitely an android.

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 ).

In Star Trek: The Original Series episode I, Mudd, the Liar paradox is used by the characters of Captain Kirk and Harry Mudd to confuse and ultimately disable an android.

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.

One emigration incentive is giving each emigrant an " andy " — a servant android.

However, the only way to be sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that an individual is an android is to take a bone marrow sample.

He is arrested and taken to be a police station where he is accused of being an android before escaping with fellow bounty hunter Phil Resch after deducing that the station was fake and staffed by androids.

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 science fiction television series Star Trek, " B-4 " is used as the name of one of four androids models constructed " before " the android Data, a main character.

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.

However, Deckard takes the Voight-Kampff test and it fails to indicate that he is an android.

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.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg.

Hanson Robotics, Inc., of Texas and KAIST produced an android portrait of Albert Einstein, using Hanson's facial android technology mounted on KAIST's life-size walking bipedal robot body.

The albums follow the adventures of Monáe's alter-ego and robot, Cindi Mayweather, as an messianic figure to the android community of Metropolis.

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

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.

In science fiction, an alien, android, robot, hologram, or computer described as sentient, ( properly sapient ) is usually treated as a fully human character, with similar rights, qualities, and capabilities as any other character.

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.

An android ( male ) or gynoid ( female ) is a humanoid robot designed to look as much like a real person as possible, although these words are frequently perceived to be synonymous with humanoid.

The Integratron building in Landers, California was used as the abandoned manufacturing plant holding the rare copy of outdated Cherry 2000 android female robot with usable memory chip at the end of the movie.

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 ).

Pym and Wasp discover the truth about the Ultron robot, which has adopted the identity of Yellowjacket and uses the Ultimates ' DNA to create a series of android duplicates.

A robot designed to be a convincing imitation of a human is specifically known as an android.

Gradually, the technicians running Delos begin to notice problems spreading like an infection among the androids: the robots in Medieval World begin suffering an inexplicable number of systemic failures, a robot rattlesnake bites Blane, and against its programming, an android refuses a guest's sexual advances.

Walter the Wobot was an android with a speech impediment who served as Judge Dredd's personal servant robot.

The malfunctioning robot accidentally activated a Superman android believed to be long destroyed.

In Thel there also existed robot technology that allowed android design including androids so advanced they were indistinguishable from flesh and blood humans.

Working together, the two scientists manage to create an intelligent robot called Grag, and an android with shape-shifting abilities called Otho.

During his stay on the world, Mudd has acquired thousands of android women as servants ( in groups of 500 identical units ), and an android version of his wife Stella, although the difference is that the robot Stella does not constantly nag him, and shuts up when she is told.

The concept of a robot gaining human emotion is a frequently visited topic in science fiction television, with characters such as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the android leads in Holmes & Yo-Yo, Mann & Machine and Future Cop.

SID, in turn, tells Lindenmeyer an alternative: tricking Clyde Reilly, a befriended coworker at LETAC, into turning SID's persona into a regenerating android ( better known as a ' nanotech synthetic organism '), by making him think he is actually generating the persona and form of a sexy virtual prostitute, Sheila 3. 2.

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.

;: Flora is an android designed after a teenage girl.

Aphrodite IX-Aphrodite IX is a self-aware android designed to carry out undercover missions of infiltration and assassination.

During one of their first calls, Yoyo is shot and Holmes discovers that his new partner is an android, a sophisticated new crime-fighting machine designed by the police department as their secret weapon on crime.

According to fashion writer Guy Trebay of The New York Times, in 2007, the " android " look is popular, a vacant stare and thin body serving, according to some fashion industry conventions, to set off the couture.

Supergirl then reveals to Superman that Brainiac shrunk the Kryptonian city of Kandor and placed it in a bottle, that the Brainiac that Superman has been fighting all these years was in fact a swarm of nanomachines sent by the real Brainiac to look for Superman that had possessed Milton Fine, Doomsday, the Brainiac 2. 5 android, and finally Lena Luthor, and that no one has ever seen the actual Brainiac.

Cathy Costello, who is revealed to be an android capable of shifting between human appearance and a more robotic look for dangerous missions.

Following Spider-Man taking out Mysterio's android doubles, Mysterio talks with the Tinkerer who asks why he made the android controlling the others look like him.