Editing Gynoid (section)

==Feminine robots==
{{cquote|...the great majority of robots were either machine-like, male-like or child-like for the reasons that not only are virtually all roboticists male, but also that fembots posed greater technical difficulties. Not only did the servo motor and platform have to be 'interiorized' (<!--内蔵する-->''naizō suru''), but the body [of the fembot] needed to be slender, both extremely difficult undertakings.<br>{{emdash}}[[Tomotaka Takahashi]], roboticist<ref>{{cite book|last1=Takahashi|first1=Tomotaka|title=Robotto no tensei|date=2006|publisher=Media Factory, Inc.|page=194}}</ref>}}

Examples of notable feminine robots include:<!-- Only examples that already have their own articles, please. -->

* [[EveR-1]]<ref>{{cite journal | title =I'm your guide | journal = [[Science (journal)|Science]] | date = 9 June 2006 | volume =312 | issue = 5779 | page = 1449 | doi = 10.1126/science.312.5779.1449d | s2cid = 220087882 }}</ref>
* [[Actroid]], designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro to be "a perfect secretary who smiles and flutters her eyelids"<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-08/fembot-mystique | title = The Fembot Mystique | work = [[Popular Science]] | first = Annalee | last = Newitz | date = 10 August 2006}}</ref>
* [[HRP-4C]]<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7946780.stm | title = Lifelike walking female robot | work = [[BBC News]] | date = 16 March 2009}}</ref>
* [[Meinü robot]]<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-08/04/content_657625.htm | title = First Chinese 'beauty' robot destined for Sichuan | date = 4 August 2006 | work = [[China Daily]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://english.sina.com/p/1/2006/0808/85533.html | title = 1st beauty robot in China | date = 8 August 2006 | work = [[Sina.com]]}}</ref>
* [[Ai-Da]], the world's first robot art system to be embodied as a [[humanoid robot]].<ref name="Guardian 2021-05-18">{{Cite news |date=18 May 2021 |title='Some people feel threatened': face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist |url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/18/some-people-feel-threatened-face-to-face-with-ai-da-the-robot-artist |access-date=2021-06-03 |newspaper=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref name="guardian">{{cite news | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/mind-blowing-ai-da-becomes-first-robot-to-paint-like-an-artist | first=Caroline | last=Davies | title='Mind-blowing': Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist | accessdate=4 April 2022}}</ref> 
* [[Vyommitra]] ([[Sanskrit]]: {{lang|sa|Vyōma}} {{gloss|space}}, {{lang|sa|Mitra}} {{gloss|friend}}) is a female [[humanoid robot]] designed for space travel. She was developed by the [[Indian Space Research Organisation]] (ISRO) to function aboard the spacecraft ''[[Gaganyaan]],'' a crewed orbital spacecraft. 

Researchers note the connection between the design of feminine robots and roboticists' assumptions about gendered appearance and labor. Fembots in [[Japan]], for example, are designed with slenderness and grace in mind,<ref name=Robertson>{{cite journal|last1=Robertson|first1=Jennifer|title=Gendering Humanoid Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan|journal=Body & Society|date=June 2010|volume=16|issue=2|pages=1–36|doi= 10.1177/1357034X10364767|s2cid=144100334}}<!--|access-date=6 March 2015--></ref> and they are employed to help to maintain traditional family structures and politics in a nation of population decline.<ref name="Robertson Robo Sapiens">{{cite journal|last1=Robertson|first1=Jennifer|title=ROBO SAPIENS JAPANICUS Humanoid Robots and the Posthuman Family|journal=Critical Asian Studies|date=September 2007|volume=39|issue=3|pages=369–98|doi=10.1080/14672710701527378|s2cid=145141775}}<!--|access-date=6 March 2015--></ref>

People's reactions to fembots are also attributable to gender stereotypes. Research in this area is aimed at elucidating gender cues, clarifying which behaviors and aesthetics elicit a stronger gender-induced response.<ref name=carpenter1>{{cite journal | last1 = Carpenter | first1 = J. | last2 = Davis | first2 = J. | last3 = Erwin-Stewart | first3 = N. | last4 = Lee | first4 = T. | last5 = Bransford | first5 = J. | last6 = Vye | first6 = N. |date=March 2009 | title = Gender representation in humanoid robots for domestic use | journal = [[International Journal of Social Robotics]] | publisher = [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer Netherlands]] | doi = 10.1007/s12369-009-0016-4  | pages =  261–265| volume =  1| issue = 3| s2cid = 31454883 }}</ref>

===Sexualization===
{{See also|Sex robot}}

[[File:Sweetheart gynoid berkley.jpg|thumb|"Sweetheart", shown with its creator, Clayton Bailey; the feminine robot (also a functional coffee maker) created a controversy after it was displayed at the [[Lawrence Hall of Science]] at [[University of California, Berkeley]].]]

Gynoids may be "eroticized", and some examples such as Aiko include sensitivity sensors in their breasts and genitals to facilitate sexual response.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.projectaiko.com/faq.html | title = Frequently Asked Question(s) | work = [[Project Aiko]]}}</ref> The fetishization of gynoids in real life has been attributed to male desires for custom-made passive women and compared to life-size [[sex doll]]s.<ref name=desirbody21>{{cite book |title= The desirable body: cultural fetishism and the erotics of consumption|last= Stratton|first=Jon |year= 2001|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=US |isbn=978-0-252-06951-2 | quote = The automaton becomes both a philosophical toy and sexual fetish; I extend the meaning of gynoid to include non-mechanical models of women such life-size dolls | page = 21}}</ref> However, some science fiction works depict them as [[femme fatale|femmes fatales]], fighting the establishment or being rebellious.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rose|first=Steve|date=15 January 2015|title=Ex Machina and sci-fi's obsession with sexy female robots|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/15/ex-machina-sexy-female-robots-scifi-film-obsession|access-date=29 May 2023|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/13/living-dolls-artificial-women-robots |title=Living dolls: sci-fi's fascination with artificial women |first=Nicola |last=Davis |newspaper=The Observer |date=13 January 2015 |access-date=29 May 2023}} (interview with Julie Wosk)</ref>

In 1983, a female robot named "Sweetheart" was removed from a display at the [[Lawrence Hall of Science]]; the robot's breasts, perceived as an exaggerated feature, resulted in a petition being presented claiming it was insulting to women. The robot's creator, [[Clayton Bailey]], a professor of art at [[California State University, East Bay|California State University, Hayward]] called this "censorship" and "next to [[book burning]]".<ref>{{cite news | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qmQ8V0Htqu0C&q=busty%20female%20robot&pg=PA352 | title = Too serious for Professor Bailey | date = 3 November 1983 | work = New Scientist vol 100 November 3, 1983, Page 352 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>