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Gynoid (from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 ????, gyne - woman) is a term used to describe a robot
Robot

A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an Electromechanics which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has Intention or Agency of its own....
 designed to look like a human female, as compared to an android
Android

An android is a robot designed to look and act human. The word derives from a?d???, the genitive of the Greek language a??? aner, meaning "man", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" ....
 modeled after a male. The term is not common, however, with android often being used to refer to both "gender
Gender

Gender comprises a range of differences between man and woman, extending from the biological to the social. Biologically, the male gender is defined by the presence of a Y-chromosome, and its absence in the female gender....
s" of robot. The portmanteau fembot (female robot) has also been used.

term "Fembot" (sometimes spelled Femmebot) is used as an alternative name for a gynoid who is designed to look like a woman.






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Gynoid (from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 ????, gyne - woman) is a term used to describe a robot
Robot

A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an Electromechanics which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has Intention or Agency of its own....
 designed to look like a human female, as compared to an android
Android

An android is a robot designed to look and act human. The word derives from a?d???, the genitive of the Greek language a??? aner, meaning "man", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" ....
 modeled after a male. The term is not common, however, with android often being used to refer to both "gender
Gender

Gender comprises a range of differences between man and woman, extending from the biological to the social. Biologically, the male gender is defined by the presence of a Y-chromosome, and its absence in the female gender....
s" of robot. The portmanteau fembot (female robot) has also been used.

Fembot

The term "Fembot" (sometimes spelled Femmebot) is used as an alternative name for a gynoid who is designed to look like a woman. The term has been used in several fictional productions.

The original fembots

In The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman is an United States Television program which spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man. It starred Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers , a tennis professional who was nearly killed in a Parachuting accident, and was rebuilt by Oscar Goldman and Dr....
, the Fembots were a line of powerful life-like gynoid
Gynoid

Gynoid is a term used to describe a robot designed to look like a human female, as compared to an android modeled after a male. The term is not common, however, with android often being used to refer to both "genders" of robot....
s that Jaime Sommers
Jaime Sommers

Jaime Sommers, sometimes spelled Jamie Sommers, is a fictional character portrayed by Lindsay Wagner in The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man....
 fought in two multi-part episodes of the series: "Kill Oscar" (with help from Steve Austin
The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man is an United States television series about a fictional cyborg working for the OSI . The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin, and during pre-production, that was the proposed title of the series....
) and "Fembots in Las Vegas". Despite the feminine prefix, there were also male versions, including some designed to impersonate particular individuals for the purpose of infiltration. While not truly artificially intelligent
Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"...
, the fembots still had extremely sophisticated programming that allowed them to pass for human in most situations.

Other fembots

In a parody of the fembots from The Bionic Woman, attractive fembots in fuzzy see-through night-gowns were used as a lure for the fictional agent Austin Powers in the movie Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, released in 1997 in film, is the first film of the Austin Powers . It was directed by Jay Roach and written by Mike Myers who also stars in the Austin Powers....
. The film's sequels had cameo appearance
Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television....
s of characters revealed as fembots. The term "fembot" was also used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (referring to a robot duplicate of the title character, a.k.a. the Buffybot).

In real life

Project Aiko
Project Aiko

Project Aiko is Canada's first functional female android and was developed by Le Trung, a chemist graduate from York University. The project is also headed by Le Trung, who has designed the software and the hardware for the android....
 was the first attempt at producing a realistic-looking "female" android. It speaks Japanese and English and has been produced for a price of 13000 euro.

See also

  • Actroid
  • Android science
    Android science

    Android science is a new interdisciplinary framework for studying human interaction and cognition based on the premise that a very humanlike robot can elicit human-directed social responses in human beings....
  • Cyborg
    Cyborg

    A cyborg is a cybernetic organism . The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space....
  • Gender in science fiction
    Gender in science fiction

    Science fiction and related genres have always offered the opportunity for writers to explore social conventions, including gender, gender roles, and beliefs about gender....
  • Humanoid robot
    Humanoid robot

    A humanoid robot is a robot with its overall appearance based on that of the human body. In general humanoid robots have a torso with a head, two arms and two legs, although some forms of humanoid robots may model only part of the body, for example, from the waist up....
  • List of fictional gynoids and female cyborgs
    List of fictional gynoids and female cyborgs

    This List of fictional gynoids and female cyborgs is sorted by media type and alphabetised by character name. Gynoids appearing in both anime and manga are listed in the animation category....


Further reading

Jordana, Ludmilla (1989) Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-12290-5 Leman, Joy (1991) "Wise Scientists and Female Androids: Class and Gender in Science Fiction." In, Corner, John, editor. Popular Television in Britain. London: BFI Publishing. ISBN 0-85170-269-4