Editing Gynoid (section)

==Name==
A gynoid is anything that resembles or pertains to the female human form. Though the term ''[[Android (robot)|android]]'' has been used to refer to robotic humanoids regardless of apparent [[gender]], the Greek prefix "andr-" refers to ''man'' in the masculine sense.<ref>{{cite dictionary | first1=Henry George |last1=Liddell |first2=Robert |last2=Scott |title=A Greek-English Lexicon |entry= ἄνδρεσι [andresi] |entry-url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da)nh%2Fr |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |date=1940 |via=perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> 

The term ''gynoid'' was first used by [[Isaac Asimov]] in a 1979 editorial, as a theoretical female equivalent of the word ''android''.<ref name=SFDictionary>{{cite web |title= gynoid|url= https://sfdictionary.com/view/2481/gynoid|website=Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction|access-date=18 May 2021}}</ref>

Other possible names for feminine robots exist. The [[portmanteau]] "fembot" (feminine robot) was used as far back as 1959, in Fritz Leiber's ''The Silver Eggheads'', applying specifically to non-sentient female sexbots.<ref>{{cite book |last=Leiber |first=Fritz |title=The Silver Eggheads |location=New York |publisher=Ballantine PBO |date=1961}}</ref> It was popularized by the television series ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'' in the episode "Kill Oscar" (1976)<ref>{{cite book |last=Wosk |first=Julie  |title=My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves |publisher= Rutgers Univ. Press |date=2015 |pages=114–115}}</ref> and later used in the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' films,<ref name=popscibots/> among others. "Robotess" is the oldest female-specific term, originating in 1921 from ''[[R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)|Rossum's Universal Robots]]'', the same source as the term "[[robot]]".