Talk:Android (robot)

Need help from Editor with citation for US Patent

• I wanted to look at the Patent in footnote 10 and had a hard time of it. Finally found it by reentering the info on the archive.com version of the new google patent search site.
• The Inventor name in google's database is wrong.
• The current links are:
• https://patents.google.com/patent/US40891A/en
• https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e9/d0/c6/f49995df9b109e/US40891.pdf
• To find it on the current Google Patent search I needed to search for the Inventor (by the wrong name) Inventor: J. S. BIJOWN (Google's OCR error: actually J. S. Brown as can be seen in the PDF)
• APA Citation: Brown, J.S. (1863). U.S. Patent 40,891. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• Chicago Manual of Style Citation: Brown, J.S. Doll: Toy Atomaton. US Patent 40,891, issued December 8, 1863.
• Can another editor help with fixing footnote 10? I am not good with citations or footnotes.

BrianFennell (talk) 20:14, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

George Lucas coining the term droid vs. popularizing it

It is generally believed that George Lucas came up with the word Droid, as a contraction of the word Android. While he without a doubt popularized it through the movie Star Wars, he was not the first person who came up with the term. There are multiple examples to be found using Google Books searches, but the clearest is the following one:

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction, 1957, issue 13

On page 40 you will find the following line:

"And then suppose you were to get a good droid mechanic to convert them[...]"

Looking around that same page, you'll find that the droid is without a doubt a reference to an android/robot. The magazine is also a sci-magazine, so it can't be said that Lucas was truly the one to coin the term even in a sci-fi setting. With all that being presented, would it be prudent to change 'coined' to 'popularized' in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SimmerALPHA (talk • contribs) 12:35, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

What is an android Buflesh (talk) 17:00, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

What is an android Buflesh (talk) 17:00, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Ant

The article mentions Phil Dick for coining the term "andy". He also used the word "ant" in the short story "The Electric Ant", in which the protagonist is initially unaware that he is an electromechanical construct instead of a human being. Maybe not worth putting in the article, as I've never seen it catch on, but I just thought I'd mention it here. --BjKa (talk) 09:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Some more examples of androids

Hello

I found the article was lacking in some android examples that are worthy of mention, and I also noticed that the only two photographs of humanoid robots displayed in the article are more specifically of gynoids and are therefore more appropriate for the article with the same name. So, I thought I would bring up some of the examples I had in mind here, some of which are also a bit more well known. One example that definitely deserve mention is Jules, by Hanson Robotics, which as far as I know was the first actual "human" robot able to perform numerous facial expressions. Hanson Robotics is mentined in the article but not Jules. which it should as Jules was their first creation.

Another one is the Geminoid HI-1, developed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, and was created as a copy of himself. The robot was also featured already back in 2008 by James May in his BBC2 documentary on robots Man-Machine in May's series Big.

Another example is 'Philip', an android featured in an episode of Nova Science where it was interviewed (so to speak). The interview, by the way, took place years before 'Sophia'.

Another doppelganger android is the Geminoid DK made after the appearance of professor Henrik Schärfe, used for researching human-robot interactions.

The article could also do with some images of these.

Thank you Okama-San (talk) 00:16, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Android (robot) needs maintenance templates

This is not something I can do

• en:Android (robot)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Android_(robot)&oldid=945695548
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Android_(robot)&oldid=945697391

• en:Special:Contributions/ATB1776
• en:User talk:ATB1776

• commons:Special:Contributions/ATB1776
• commons:User talk:ATB1776
• commons:File:Maria Bot Offical Photo .jpg
• commons:File:Lauren Lopez and Maria Bot selfie 2 27 20.jpg
• commons:File:Dr._Barry_and_Maria_Bot-_Human-AI_Android_Teaching_Team.jpg

—§— T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 04:50, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Requested move and retarget of Android to Android (operating system)

See Talk:Android#Requested_move_27_November_2024 JayCubby Talk 01:37, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Confusion between androids and humanoid robots

I propose the deletion of this section "

China

On April 19, 2025, 21 humanoid robots participated along with 12,000 human runners in a half-marathon in Beijing. While almost every robot fell down and had overheating problems, and the robots were continuously being controlled by human handlers accompanying them, six of the robots did reach the finish line. Two of them, Tiangong Ultra by Chinese robotics company UBTech, and N2 by Chinese company Noetix Robotics, which took first and second place respectively among robots in the race, stood out for their consistent (albeit slow) pace."

as it refers to humanoid robots, not androids, hence is not relevant to this Wikipedia article. Transparentrose (talk) 21:31, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

References

Usage for clone

It occurs to me that the use of 'android' for robot in sci-fi is rather recent. I'm not questioning the fact there were some rare early documented usages in the meaning of a humanoid automaton, but it occurs that in the 1940s and the 1950s, the term still seems to have been popularly used in sci-fi to commonly mean what we call a biological clone, a test-tube baby, or a humanoid genetical experiment nowadays, and it's since only developed into a term for 'robot' from there sometime around the 1960s or 1970s. Examples I can point to include:

• The Rebel of Valkyr (1950) by Alfred Coppel
• Made in the U. S. A. (1953) by J. T. McIntosh
• Down Among the Dead Men (1954) by William Tenn

Oddly enough, this also corresponds to the original meaning of the word 'robot' in Capek's seminal 1928 novel RUR: Not mechanical beings, but biological clones that come from test tubes via artificial insemination. In fact, A. E. van Vogt even still used this definition of "fully organic human from a test tube via artificial insemination" for robot as late as 1943 in his story Concealment. --~2026-88206-5 (talk) 04:23, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

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