Editing Android (robot) (section)

{{Short description|Robot resembling a human}}
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[[File:Repliee Q2.jpg|thumb|Repliee Q2, an android, can mimic human functions such as blinking, breathing and speaking, with the ability to recognize and process speech and touch, and then respond in kind.]]
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An '''android''' is a [[humanoid robot]] or other artificial being, often made from a flesh-like material.<ref name="Van Riper 10">{{Cite book|last=Van Riper|first=A. Bowdoin|title=Science in popular culture: a reference guide|url=https://archive.org/details/sciencepopularcu00ripe_428|url-access=limited|publisher=[[Greenwood Press]]|location=Westport|year=2002|page=[https://archive.org/details/sciencepopularcu00ripe_428/page/n28 10]|isbn=0-313-31822-0}}</ref><ref name="Prucher2007">{{cite book |author=Prucher |first=Jeff |title=[[Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-530567-8 |pages=6–7 |chapter=android |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iYzi8m8FbEsC&pg=PA6}}</ref><ref name="Stableford2006">{{cite book|author=Brian M. Stableford|title=Science fact and science fiction: an encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uefwmdROKTAC&pg=PA22|year=2006|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-415-97460-8|pages=22–23}}</ref><ref name="Wilson2006">{{cite book|author=Eric G. Wilson|title=The melancholy android: on the psychology of sacred machines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSLiPUPESGcC&pg=PA27|year=2006|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-6846-3|pages=27–28}}</ref> Historically, androids existed only in the domain of [[science fiction]] and were frequently seen in film and television, but advances in [[robotics|robot technology]] have allowed the design of functional and realistic [[humanoid]] robots.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McCaw |first=Caroline |author-link=Caroline McCaw |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/225915408 |title=Http |date=2001 |publisher=[University of Otago?] |oclc=225915408}}</ref><ref>Ishiguro, Hiroshi. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061017073036/http://www.androidscience.com/proceedings2005/IshiguroCogSci2005AS.pdf "Android science."], ''[[Cognitive Science Society]]'', Osaka, 2005. Retrieved on 3 October 2013.</ref>