Female robot

A fembot is a humanoid robot that is gendered feminine. It is also known as a gynoid, though this term is more recent. Fembots appear widely in science fiction film and art. As more realistic humanoid robot design is technologically possible, they are also emerging in real-life robot design.

The portmanteau fembot (female robot) was popularized by the television series The Bionic Woman in the episode "Kill Oscar" (1976) and later used in the Austin Powers films, among others. Robotess is the oldest female-specific term, originating in 1921 from the same source as the term robot.

A gynoid is anything that resembles or pertains to the female human form. Though the term android refers to robotic humanoids regardless of apparent gender, the Greek prefix "andr-" refers to man in the masculine gendered sense. Because of this prefix, many read Android as referring to male-styled robots.

The term gynoid was used by Gwyneth Jones in her 1985 novel Divine Endurance to describe a robot slave character in a futuristic China, that is judged by her beauty.

Gynoid is also used in American English medical terminology as a shortening of the term gynecoid (gynaecoid in British English).

...the great majority of robots were either machine-like, male-like or child-like for the reasons that not only are virtually all roboticists male, but also that fembots posed greater technical difficulties. Not only did the servo motor and platform have to be ‘interiorized’ (naizosuru), but the body [of the fembot] needed to be slender, both extremely difficult undertakings.

Examples of female robots include:

Researchers have noted the connection between the design of feminine robots and roboticists' assumptions about gendered appearance and labor. Fembots in Japan, for example, are designed with slenderness and grace in mind, and they are employed in ways that help to maintain traditional family structures and politics in a nation that is seeing a population decline.

People also react to fembots in ways that may be attributed to gender stereotypes. This research has been used to elucidate gender cues, clarifying which behaviors and aesthetics elicit a stronger gender-induced response.

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