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This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media. This list is intended for all fictional ...
Pages in category "Fictional androids" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Depictions of androids in fiction, humanoid robots or other artificial beings, often made from a flesh-like material. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
Recently, a popular overview of the history of androids, robots, cyborgs and replicants from antiquity to the present has been published. [1] Treated fields of knowledge are: history of technology, history of medicine, philosophy, literature, film and art history, the range of topics discussed is worldwide.
The Android, from Dark Matter [22] Android One-Zero/Mana from Ultraman Ginga S; Andromeda, from A for Andromeda (1961) and The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962) In Andromeda (2000-2004), Doyle is a gynoid; and Rommie is a ship's computer given a human form. [23] ANI (Android Nursing Interface) from Mercy Point (1998–1999)
Fictional androids are often depicted as mentally and physically equal or superior to humans—moving, thinking and speaking as fluidly as them. [ 3 ] [ 33 ] The tension between the nonhuman substance and the human appearance—or even human ambitions—of androids is the dramatic impetus behind most of their fictional depictions.
(retrospectively titled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco , where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war , leaving most animal species endangered or extinct .
Novels about androids (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Androids in literature" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.