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Do androids dream of electric sheep?—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 By the end of the movie, the line between human and machine is blurred, leaving viewers with a difficult question: If androids can love, suffer and fear, should humans see and treat them more like humans and less like machines?—Claire A. Simmers, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2025 Another company, Shanghai Qingbao Engine Robot that sells highly realistic androids.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025 Fans were proven right when Olyphant debuted as Kirsch, a robot from the Prodigy corporation tasked with mentoring Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and the Lost Boys, a group of hybrids, a new technology that allowed for the consciousness of terminally ill children to be placed in adult android forms.—EW.com, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for android
Word History
Etymology
earlier androides "automaton having a human form," borrowed from French androïde, perhaps borrowed from Late Greek androeidḗs "in the form of a man, like a man," from Greek andr-, anḗr "man, husband, human" + -oeidēs-oid entry 2 — more at andro-
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The word may equally well have been formed in post-medieval Latin, but evidence is lacking. An early English instance can be found in The History of Magick by way of Apology, for all the Wise Men who have unjustly been reputed Magicians (London, 1657), a translation, by "J. Davies," of Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de magie (Paris, 1625) by the French librarian and scholar Gabriel Naudé (1600-53). The French word occurs earlier in Le mastigophore, ou precurseur du Zodiaque ([Paris]: 1609), a satirical work by the priest Antoine Fuzy/Fusi (1560-1629). Both authors use androïde in connection with the legendary talking automaton devised by albertus magnus, without any suggestion that the word was a neologism.
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