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Two prominent female synths from the former are Niska and Anita/Mia [27] Intimate Robotic Companions, also known as Sexbots or Bangbots, from the Almost Human episode "Skin" [28] Judy Cooper, robot girl from K.C. Undercover (2015) [29] Outer Limits gynoids: Valerie 23, Mary 25, and Mona Lisa, all from their respective episodes of the same name.
Other possible names for feminine robots exist. The portmanteau "fembot" (feminine robot) was used as far back as 1959, in Fritz Leiber's The Silver Eggheads , applying specifically to non-sentient female sexbots. [ 5 ]
Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870) The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923.
Sophia is a female social humanoid robot developed in 2016 by the Hong Kong–based company Hanson Robotics. [1] Sophia was activated on February 14, 2016, [2] and made her first public appearance in mid-March 2016 at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, United States. [3]
She has been given several names through the decades: Parody (the name Rotwang calls her in the novel), Ultima, Machina, Robotrix, False Maria, Robot Maria, Roboria and Hel. The intertitles of the 2010 restoration of Metropolis quote Rotwang, the robot's creator, referring to his gynoid Maschinenmensch, literally translated as "Machine human".
The two robots are sent to find a saboteur that has taken control of a prototype central core and is causing problems in the facility. The saboteur is eventually revealed to be a bird pecking at the console's keyboard, which sends GLaDOS into a panic when she recognizes it as the one who tried to eat her during her time as a potato.
Earlier drafts of the script name these replicants as Hodge and Mary. In Hampton Fancher's early drafts of the script, Mary lives and Hodge is the only replicant fried in the electrical field. Mary was intended to reflect the novel's character of Irmgard Baty, and was meant to be a "mother figure" model of replicant, performing housework and ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. American animated science fantasy television series My Life as a Teenage Robot Also known as Teenage Robot Genre Comedy drama Action - adventure Comic science fiction Superhero Animated sitcom Science fiction comedy Science fantasy Created by Rob Renzetti Developed by Rob Renzetti Alex ...