Difference between an android and a robot

[Pete OHanlon]

Shouldn't it be:

public class Android : Robot, IHumanoid
{
}

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[Gary R Wheeler]

Careful, you might incite a case of android rage.

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[Luc Pattyn]

Your logic is strange to me; you have three new concepts, and none of the ones I had, so I don't see how that "should follow". :confused:

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[Gary R Wheeler]

Hmm.... I think something like this is more the thing:

public class Cyborg
{
public Cyborg(IHumanElements human_elements,IRobotElements robot_elements)
{
_Human = human_elements;
_Robot = robot_elements;
};

private IHumanElements \_Human;
private IRobotElements \_Robot;

}

In the cyborg's case, I think it's more of a 'has-a' relationship than an 'is-a' relationship.

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[Keith Barrow]

To clarify: C3PO is an andriod (and a robot) R2D2 is just a robot. George Lucas is a human (who doesn't know his a*** from his elbow).

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[Luc Pattyn]

There's lots of interfaces one can attribute to Android, to name a few: IAnimatable, IAsyncResult, IDictionary<Klingon>, IDropTarget, IExpando, IHttpHandler, IIntellisenseBuilder, ILease, IProcessHost, IResourceProvider, ... More advanced models might even add IGoogle, IReflect :)

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[Abhinav S]

Indivara wrote:

Cyborg

Cyborg is closer to a human than an Android?

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[realJSOP]

I was hoping nobody gets anal about it, butt you know that will happen. Chances are very good that someone will be a total sphincter and ruin our fun.

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[Pete OHanlon]

keefb wrote:

C3PO is an andriod (and a robot) R2D2 is just a robot.

Correct, but Lucas insists on classifying them as Droids.

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[Gary R Wheeler]

Ahh, most folks around here have more intestinal fortitude than that. I think we can colon most of them to get the joke.

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[RichardM1]

Cyborg is a human with 'robotic' parts Android is a robot that looks like a human

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[Steve Mayfield]

maybe, but he is a very, very rich putz...

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[Indivara]

You're right. It doesn't (but IRobot is the interface of Robot, so it's only two new concepts) I plead intoxication :beer: ;)

[PIEBALDconsult]

Androids are the ones that dream of electric sheep.

[Johann Gerell]

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[micmanos]

The word Robot comes from the Czech word 'Robota' which means Labor. Following the actual meaning of the term, a robot is nothing more than a machine specified to do actual physical labor work. An android comes from the Greek word 'Andros' which means 'Man'. Although the word 'Android' focuses in the Human nature and not the particular differences of the male and female gender, it's clear that it doesn't relate to a Robot since nothing in its definition implies that it performs any labor or even moves for that matter. Artists today create androids from scrap metal. In ancient times we could say that statues were androids made out of stone, marble, gold, ... etc.

[Dave Sexton]

That's unique to SA, no-one else calls them that. Freaked my dad out when we first moved to SA in 1980, he got pulled over by a traffic cop who said (after determining that my father spoke no Afrikaans) "Ekskuus me, sihrr. Does you knows you jest went froo a rrrred rrrrrobot?" "I beg your pardon" said Dad, "A what?" "A rrred rrrobot". Stunned silence from my dad, who looked around looking for some form of mechanical marvel, a fantastic metal beast painted in glorious red livery with a car shaped hole in. "I... uh... what?" "A traffis laaight!" "Oh!" says Dad, "You mean a traffic light..." Say Brady - stuur bietjie biltong china. Ons kry fokol hier :)

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[Brady Kelly]

On my current budget I also get fokol. :((

[Dave Sexton]

Trek die kant toe. It's colder, the food is bad and the people not nearly as friendly as "they" would have you believe but on the plus side you can earn a boatload of cash and travel extensively for relatively little. If you work in finance/banking (and you're good) you can earn close to ZAR1M p/a. Not a bad old life, I can tell you.

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Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen

[Brady Kelly]

I'd move to Ireland at the drop of a hat, given an opportunity.