Gynoid

A gynoid, or fembot, is a feminine humanoid robot. Gynoids appear widely in science fiction film and art. As more realistic humanoid robot design becomes technologically possible, they are also emerging in real-life robot design. Just like any other robot, the main parts of a Gynoid include sensors, actuators and a control system. Sensors are responsible for detecting the changes in the environment while the actuators, also called effectors, are motors and other components responsible for the movement and control of the robot. The control system instructs the robot on what to do so as to achieve the desired results. A gynoid is anything that resembles or pertains to the female human form. Though the term android has been used to refer to robotic humanoids regardless of apparent gender, the Greek prefix "andr-" refers to man in the masculine sense. The term gynoid was first used by Isaac Asimov in a 1979 editorial, as a theoretical female equivalent of the word android. Other possible names for feminine robots exist. The portmanteau "fembot" (feminine 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 Rossum's Universal Robots, the same source as the term "robot". 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.Tomotaka Takahashi, roboticist Examples of feminine robots include: Project Aiko, an attempt at producing a realistic-looking female android. It speaks Japanese and English, and is produced for a price of €13,000 EveR-1 Actroid, designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro to be "a perfect secretary who smiles and flutters her eyelids" HRP-4C Meinü robot Mark 1 Ai-Da, the world's first robot art system to be embodied as a humanoid robot.