“If an android becomes too realistic and lifelike, people are repelled and disgusted.”

“It must be annoying for under-funded museum staff to see a travelling droid circus jetting in from California.”

“I did spend the first half of the movie trying to figure out why a droid was wheezing and coughing.”

“Just under 4ft, the bug-eyed droid, right, can turn on lights, open a bottle of water and fetch the mail.”

“Hence the construction of an androides, in such a manner as to imitate any of these motions with exactness, is justly considered as one of the highest.”

“The future is always depicted as a place where a technical fix has gone wrong, where androids stalk a devastated urban landscape.”

“The song sounds like a fleet of androids racing and screaming toward the future, underpinned by a churning disco beat.”

“The science fiction fascination with robots and androids is the culmination of this perception of machines as being almost like one of us.”