Review Android

An android is a robot designed to look or behave like a human, a classic older word from AI and science-fiction discussions about artificial people.

An android is a robot whose body or behavior is designed to resemble a person. The resemblance may be visual, physical, or social; it does not mean the machine thinks or feels like a person.

Humanlike form changes how people interpret a machine. It can make interaction easier, but it can also encourage people to overestimate the system’s understanding, agency, or emotional capacity.

A museum uses a human-shaped guide robot that turns its head toward visitors and speaks directions. Its appearance makes it an android, even though its dialogue and movement are tightly limited.

An android is not any robot, and it is not the same thing as Google’s Android operating system. In robotics, the term refers to human resemblance.

An android is a robot in human form.

* [[robot|Robot]] * [[autonomous-system|Autonomous System]] * [[embodiment-premium|Embodiment Premium]] * [[ai-overreliance|AI Overreliance]]

* [NIST, “A Glossary of Terms for Robotics”](https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/IR/nbsir81-2340.pdf) — provides historical robotics definitions, including android and sensor.

* Compare [[robot|Robot]], [[autonomous-system|Autonomous System]], [[embodiment-premium|Embodiment Premium]], and [[ai-overreliance|AI Overreliance]] to place Android in the surrounding system. * Follow the cited source material above for the method, standard, or research context behind this draft.