Androids and Cyborgs.

[Nautical Honors Society]

I was thinking about this recently.

We all have an idea of what an android is and what a cyborg is, but are there any exact classifications?

Or are they just synonymy for robots?

I always thought an android is a robot that looks like an organic organism and that a cyborg is an organic organism altered with robotic parts.

What do you guys think?

 

[Jonluw]

It is what you say it is. Isn't it?

 

[Kajt]

I always thought an android is a robot that looks like an organic organism and that a cyborg is an organic organism altered with robotic parts.

This is what I think it is, it seems fitting somehow.

 

[UBERfionn]

Android: A humanoid robot
Cyborg: A robot with human parts

 

[Jackalb]

Pretty sure you've got it right.

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

yup,that's it.don't really get the meaning of this post though

 

[1deano1]

Actually a Cyborg is a person that has been given prosthetic limbs.

 

[AdmiralCheez]

Well, cyborg is short for "cybernetic organism."

 

[Quaxar]

Yup, thats it. Android totally robotic, cyborg organic with robot parts.
The real question is. Which one was Lincoln?

He was both, an android with human parts... kinda like the Terminator!

 

[Jackalb]

We all know this thread was just made so Bishop could be praised.
He wins this thread.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

yup,that's it.don't really get the meaning of this post though

I posted this because I thought that the topic was more debatable...I didn't know I was so correct in my assumptions XD

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

We all know this thread was just made so Bishop could be praised.
He wins this thread.

Who is Bishop?

 

[Jackalb]

We all know this thread was just made so Bishop could be praised.
He wins this thread.

Who is Bishop?

Oh you make me cry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_%28Aliens%29 Him.

 

[Chardan]

Both make me feel physically sick. Ugh, I couldn't live in a world with robots and replica people. I'd be like Will Smith in I,Robot.

 

[Jackalb]

PS. Motoko Kusanagi wins the thread if anyone.

I see your Motoko and raise you a

Roy Batty

 

[Billion Backs]

Android is a human-like robot that looks male.

Gynoid is a human-like robot that looks female.

Cyborg is a biological organism supported with technological parts added in.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

We all know this thread was just made so Bishop could be praised.
He wins this thread.

Who is Bishop?

Oh you make me cry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_%28Aliens%29 Him.

Ah yes the Alien(s) series, I do keep getting bugged about never seeing that...

 

[child of lileth]

Yeah, it's pretty much exactly what you said in the OP.

 

[Jackalb]

But I'll counter with Molly

Well M'Lady Robocop is not pleased.

 

[Billion Backs]

I've yet to see Blade Runner despite the fact that I have it on my HD.
But I'll counter with Molly;

Is this the Molly from Neuromancer? Or some other Molly?

If the former is correct, I've always pictured much bigger "visor" in front of both of her eyes.