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The TV series Humans, and its Swedish original, feature an array of androids and gynoids that are collectively referred to as synths, in the former, and hubots in the latter. 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 ...
"Maschinenmensch" from the 1927 film Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany. 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.
R. Giskard Reventlov is a pre-humaniform robot, designed and built on Aurora by Han Fastolfe, and a lifelong companion of Fastolfe. As an unintended result of experiments in programming carried out on him by Fastolfe's student daughter Vasilia Fastolfe, Giskard was given the ability to read and influence emotions [4] of humans and robots.
"Satisfaction Guaranteed" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the April 1951 issue of Amazing Stories, and included in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957), The Rest of the Robots (1964), and The Complete Robot (1982).
They have already had a dramatic impact on personal relationships, on our views of women, and our ideas about what it means to be human." [11] Wosk, as a writer for HuffPost and other media, has also written about new developments in female companion robots and the pitfalls of creating artificial versions of "The Perfect Woman." [12] [13]
The Clockwork Girl is an all-ages/science fiction/fantasy comic series created by Sean O'Reilly and Kevin Hanna and inspired by Hanna's earlier zine "Clockwork Girls hate Electronic Boys", that ran for five issues and was published in a collected edition for the first time in 2008.
On the other hand, the women in the tales who do speak up are framed as wicked. Cinderella's stepsisters' language is decidedly more declarative than hers, and the woman at the center of the tale "The Lazy Spinner" is a slothful character who, to the Grimms' apparent chagrin, is "always ready with her tongue."
It was popularized by the television series The Bionic Woman in the episode "Kill Oscar" (1976) [6] and later used in the Austin Powers films, [7] among others. "Robotess" is the oldest female-specific term, originating in 1921 from Rossum's Universal Robots , the same source as the term " robot ".