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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.
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One thing common to most fictional androids is that the real-life technological challenges associated with creating thoroughly human-like robots — such as the creation of strong artificial intelligence—are assumed to have been solved. [33]
Though the term android has been used to refer to robotic humanoids regardless of apparent gender, the Greek prefix "andr-" refers to man in the masculine sense. [3] The term gynoid was first used by Isaac Asimov in a 1979 editorial, as a theoretical female equivalent of the word android. [4] Other possible names for feminine robots exist.
This category is for individual, real-life androids. ... Fictional androids. Pages in category "Androids" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total
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)
Depictions of androids in television, humanoid robots or other artificial beings, often made from a flesh-like material. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
David 8, stylized as David 8 and commonly known simply as David, is a fictional character featured in the Alien franchise, portrayed by Michael Fassbender.Introduced in the first prequel film, Prometheus (2012), David is an android serving as a butler, maintenance man, and surrogate son to his creator, Peter Weyland, the founder of the Weyland Corporation.