why would an android be binary sexed?
daveso
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i see it often..always? there is a male and female version ... why? it could be nothing or something. Does it really matter?
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Because they’re made by humans, and because the androids available in the Daz store are, broadly speaking, designed for people who use binary sexed characters.
Strictly speaking, all androids would be male, since the prefix “andro” refers to masculinity, as opposed to “gyn” for femininity. Hence, why you occasionally see the term “gynoid” for the female ones.
Honestly, this is just one more part of a common issue that also includes things like anthropomorphic animals, especially non-mammals, having external breasts.
Amazon sells them for $1,729 dollars.
"Real silicone sex dolls 153cm robot Japanese realistic love doll sexy anime big breast..."
- note, I've used ... in consideration of TOS
I'd imagine it's because androids would be made by humans, for humans. Assuming that we one day go to the trouble of making robots that are human-shaped, I would rather look at a female android as it brings me drinks as opposed to one that looks like Alfred from Batman. Thinking of it, I'd rather have a female android than one that looks like Twiki from "Buck Rogers".
My SatNav has a choice of male or female voices - the default is male, but I changed it to female as a personal preference. No idea why, I just prefer it that way.
Same reason Siri can be male or female. Most SciFi series that have robots that are even vaguely human have both male and female versions so it's not a 3D thing per se.
At that price I'd expect it to do some walking and get on a plane to get here. Can you imagine the faces for the airplane staff! And customs lol ...
The answer, at least in the story/universe I'm writing, is that AIs don't want to add any more barriers to their acceptance.
A lot of people don't accept or struggle with gender-neutral pronouns like "they", and AIs don't want to be downgraded to the exceptionally impersonal "it". As such, most AIs tend to make a choice to identify as male or identify as female, because for most of them it doesn't matter which they are, it's just easier to be one or the other.
From a selling at Daz point of view though, the answer is "because some artists will create a universe in which one is the default, others will create a universe where the other is the default, and some artists will want both". A PA isn't necessarily creating for only one mythos, they're often creating products across a great many universes, but if they are going to make a male and female robot, creating them so they roughly match both requires less design work and could be a selling point for the audience who want their universe to include both.
"It" + "It" = zip So they are "it" ...
Now, IF "it" + "it" = something then oh yeah, that's humans!!! Human[oid]s started by Cain and his folk way back when, concepts resurrected every now and then with massive earth weather changing events causing massive wipe-outs - hence the creation of what we call Celtic Crosses [the ones with all the snakes and stuff on them], he truly mourned the loss of so many of his "children" ... I meet the most interesting people ... however it is the memory leaks are caused, if anybody has any particular questions about what or why or whatever happened over the course of the years, I'll ask him for ya.
I would imagine the sex doll's head alone would be quite expensive, no pun intended.
There have been many studies about how we respond to a male voice vs a female voice in different circumstances. We are mostly wired this way. The same is true in regard to our inclination to purchase 3D figures.
The word "Android" (in its common use) implies a robot that is shaped like a human being; and since human beings have genders, so do the robots shaped like them.
DAZ does sell non-gendered robots (like these ones or these ones) but they don't register as "Androids" because they're not humanoid.
I would like Rosie from the Jetsons. She could handle my basement cleanup with nary an allergy.
Another example would be our pets. I just watch a YouTube video of a researcher who rescued a pack of wolves; they bonded enough that she could pet them without them tearing her apart. Meanwhile, we have bred dogs so that when we smile, they don;t interpret it as an aggressive baring of teeth. As a rule, we shape things to resemble ourselves.
If she could access it No one on the Jetsons would have had a basement, since all their homes were up in the air on those skinny pedestals, so Rosie's probably programmend to stay on the same level.
On the other hand, one of the very best fan theories that I've ever heard is that the Jetsons and The Flintstones actually take place at the same time in a post apocalyptic world where the elite upper class live above the radiation and destruction in sky cities, while the lower caste workers are forced to live in stone age-like conditions, digging up the raw materials for the elites, using strange dinosaur-like mutated animals.
I've done that with mashed potatoes... it's hard to make the hair look right, but usually the top gets moldy first, so people think the fuzzy hair-like strands are deliberate...
A lot of artists are men, and men will put boobs on all of the things.
This.
...even space ships.
https://s3.drafthouse.com/images/made/battlebeyond3_758_426_81_s.jpg
Beat me to it. :) For those who don't know, the boob-ship, Nell, was of the first projects a young filmaker named James Cameron worked on after coming to Hollywood.
...another who sort of "cut his teeth" on that film was Soundtrack Composer James Horner, who went onto write scores for such films as Aliens, Field Of Dreams, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Titanic, and Avatar.
My Android looks like a phone
A huge percentage of the Battle Beyond The Stars team eventually formed the core of James Cameron's creative team, with their next big project, GALAXY OF TERROR, essentially being the dress reheasal for ALIENS. The GoodBad Flicks YouTube channel released a great 30 minute documentary on the history of how the films all tied together just last week and it's well worth the time to watch -
That's funny... my phone looks like an Android. ;)
The only problem with that is, these guys have been left behind and now feel sad and neglected.
https://www.daz3d.com/mobi-the-cell-phone-toon
:D :D ;D
awww poor guys
I imagine when I am done with my android, its going to look like a deflated Whoopi cushion 
What, you can't do that with your Chia pet hair???
You had an android made that looks like Whoopi Goldberg? Well, to each their own, I guess...
Ha!
well, could have a no sex android with a female sounding voice. Yeah ... its interesting the human aspect of everything. They're desgning robots that look like dogs, called roveoids