Gynoid: Perbedaan antara revisi

Isaac Asimov writes that his robots were generally sexually neutral and that giving the majority masculine names was not an attempt to comment on gender. He first wrote about female-appearing robots at the request of editor [[Judy-Lynn del Rey]].<ref>{{cite book |title= The Bicentennial man and other stories|last= Asimov|first= |authorlink= |page=5 |year= 1976|publisher= Doubleday|location= |isbn=9780385121989}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= I. Asimov: a memoir|last= Asimov|first= Isaac |authorlink= |page=320 |year= 1994|publisher= Doubleday|location= |isbn=9780385417013}}</ref> Asimov's short story "Feminine Intuition" (1969) is an early example that showed gynoids as being as capable and versatile as male robots, with no sexual connotations.<ref>{{cite book |title= Gold: the final science fiction collection|last= Asimov|first= Isaac |authorlink= |page=172 |year= 1995|publisher= HarperPrism|location= |isbn=9780061052064}}</ref> Early models in "Feminine Intuition" were "female caricatures", used to highlight their human creators' reactions to the idea of female robots. Later models lost obviously feminine features, but retained "an air of femininity".<ref>{{cite book |title= The Bicentennial man and other stories|last= Asimov|first= |authorlink= |page=15 |year= 1976|publisher= Doubleday|location= |isbn=9780385121989}}</ref>

 

[[File:Sweetheart gynoid berkley.jpg|thumb|“Sweetheart”, shown with its creator, Clayton Bailey; the busty female robot (also a functional coffee maker) that created a controversy when it was displayed at the [[Lawrence Hall of Science]] at [[UC Berkeley]] ]]