Martha Wells’ 2017-2018 series The Murderbot Diaries takes all those past examples of gendered robots, and uses them to build something different. In contrast, 2013’s Her presents an AI as a perfect girlfriend who anticipates her twee boyfriend’s every emotional need. The first 1984 Terminator film imagined its robot assassin as the hyper masculine Arnold Schwarzenegger, hugely muscled and ruthlessly unstoppable. Robbed of the ennobling power of labor, humankind becomes sterile, and unable to reproduce. , which introduced the word robot to the world, humans build organic artificial people to do all their work for them. Robots in fiction have from the beginning been used to talk about how gender is constructed and how gender constructs us.
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