Android literally means "man-shaped" — and it's 200 years older than the word "robot." The female version, "gynoid," never caught on.
A robot with a human appearance. Also used as the name of Google's mobile operating system.
From Modern Latin androides, coined from Greek anēr, andros ('man, male human') + -eidēs ('form, likeness'), from eidos ('form, shape'). Literally 'having the form of a man.' First used in English by Ephraim Chambers in 1728. Key roots: *h₂nḗr (Proto-Indo-European: "man, vital force"), anēr (ἀνήρ) (Greek: "man, male human"), eidos (εἶδος) (Greek: "form, shape, appearance").
The word "android" strictly means a robot that looks like a male human — the female equivalent is "gynoid," from Greek gynē ("woman"), though this term never caught on outside academic circles. The word "robot" (from Czech robota, "forced labor") was coined in 1920, but "android" is actually almost 200 years older, first appearing in 1728. When Google named its mobile operating system "Android" in 2007, the green robot mascot was deliberately designed