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![]() As far as I know, this is the first use of this uncommon word, a female robot.
Today, many writers use gynoid to describe a feminine gendered robot; see the entry for gynoid from Divine Endurance (1984) by Gwyneth Jones.
Fans of early cinema might also remember the female robot from Fritz Lang's 1927 classic Metropolis.
![]() (Female robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis) The term fembot is also used; this term first appeared in 1976 in The Bionic Woman, an American television series. Compare to the manufactured wife from A Wife Manufactured to Order (1895) by Alice W. Fuller, the psychophonic nurse from The Psychophonic Nurse (1928) by David H. Keller, the teleoperated robot surrogate from The Robot and the Lady (1938) by Manly Wade Wellman, the mechanical bride from The Mechanical Bride (1954) by Fritz Leiber, the maid-robot from The Midas Plague (1954) by Frederik Pohl and the Nanny from Nanny (1955) by Philip K. Dick. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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