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(thing) by seldo (4.1 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Apr 14 2000 at 17:53:22

An android is a variation on the idea of a robot. Androids are essentially robots that are intended to look as human-like as possible, including the ability to display emotions, whereas a robot -- according to Isaac Asimov, the man who coined the term robotics and first wrote extensively about them in his Robot novels -- is merely human-shaped. Asimov himself never refers to his humanoid robots as androids.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) 1 C! Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:47:21

An"droid (#), An*droi"des (#), n. [Gr. of man's form; , , man + form.]

A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.

An"droid, a.

Resembling a man.

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OK Computer	Asimov	Gynoid	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
robot	love conquers all **	Dr. Noonien Soong	Alfred Bester
positronic	cyborg	Total Recall 2070	Terminator
If Dr. Seuss wrote for Star Trek	Star Trek	data	The Precession of Simulacra in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Armitage III	The Night Killers	Mentifex	Marionette
Yossarian	Marvin	Arale Norimaki	Dream Log: February 20, 2005

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