Droid
Entry updated 12 July 2021. Tagged: Theme.
Term first coined by Mari Wolf in Robots of the World! Arise! (July 1952 If; 2010 ebook), and subsequently used by George Lucas in his script for Star Wars (1977); now widely recognized owing to the film's enormous popularity. Though obviously a contraction of Android, it denotes a not necessarily humanoid Robot. [DRL].
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