Talk:Robotoid

word origin
OK, this term may have been used as far back as 1966 regarding Robby the Robot from Lost in Space but I'm still researching it. However, Beter may have been the first to coin "organic robotoid". -Eep² 16:34, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, the Battle of the Planets TV series (1978-1985) episode Rage of the Robotoids may have aired around the time Beter mentioned "robotoids" in 1979. (but lists it airing in 1984/1985 so who knows...). The term is also found in Piers Anthony's Prosthy Plus, which may have been published as early as 1967 in Worlds of If, and as a novel in 1971 (but I only found the term in a 1986 reprint of the book copyrighted to 1973 so it's hard to say... However, it does seem that the term originated before Beter's mention of it in 1979 at least. Now it's just up to either Anthony or Lost in Space, I would say, although tracing back to robot may provide more clues as to robotoid's origin. -Eep² 16:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, according to, Prosthy Plus includes the stories of "In the Jaws of Danger" (1967) and "Getting Through University" (1968). "In the Jaws of Danger" was supposedly published in "Worlds of If", as I mentioned above, but, according to Amazon's online reader, "robotoid" is on pages 111, 132, 134 (along with "Metallica"), and 139 of "Prosthy Plus" (and doesn't say which story these quotes are from). confirms that "robotoid" appeared in at least "Getting Through University" ("Robot-sixty-eight per cent." The robotoid took the news impassively."--the same quote on page 111 in the previously referenced Amazon.com excerpt of a 1986 Tor Books publishing of the 1973-copyrighted Prosthy Plus), but this is from the 1985 Tor Books publishing of the book Anthonology so I don't know if it also appeared in the original 1968 publishing of the "Getting Through University" in "Worlds of If"! (The term probably did appear then but it's not definite in my mind yet.) Regardless, it's becoming more obvious Beter wasn't the first to use "robotoid". However, it's possible he never heard of it before 1979, assuming he wasn't into sci-fi or ever saw Lost in Space (assuming "robotoid" was ever used on it, as I describe above). -Eep² 19:28, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * According to the Internet Movie Database, the Lost in Space episode War of the Robots came out on February 9, 1966 and credits Robby the Robot as a robotoid and William Bramley and Ollie O'Toole as uncredited robotoid voice actors. A fansite Character Studies Analysis by Charles Mento claims Robot (Robby) "knows the term Robotoid". 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment describes the episode as "The family's robot is seemingly replaced when Will repairs a robotoid from an advanced civilization - until the new machine wreaks havoc by trying to take over the ship."


 * And in April, 1968, Marvel Comics released Avengers #51 which introduced "The Robotoid".

Obviously, Beter didn't coin the term, but I think all of these references should be listed as being notable. -Eep² 02:41, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Attention needed

 * Refs
 * Notability - Does this need an article

Chaosdruid (talk) 05:35, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Credits ... uncredited actors?
The article says, "... credits Robby the Robot as a "robotoid" and William Bramley and Ollie O'Toole as uncredited "robotoid voice" actors." Which is it. Do they, or do they not, get credit? IAmNitpicking (talk) 11:54, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Robotoids are humanoids which don't look like humans, sometimes they even look like machines
robotoid (noun, plural: robotoids) definitions:
 * 1) a humanoid which has robotic physical appearance and doesn't look exactly as a human
 * a humanoid which has human-inspired body parts, but not human-like
 * 1) a machine which has human-like intelligence, but non human-like appearance

The difference between 1. and 2. is that in entry 1. are described the humanoid robots which have human-inspired body parts, but not human-like.

The limbic system (empathy, emotions and experience/experiencing assimilation) can also be reproduced via artificial neural networks. (usually we use artificial neural network simulation on a standard processing unit; but some computer scientists actually create intricate connectome processing units (you mimic the human brain, but nowadays they close some parts of an intricate printed network - because electonics nowadays cannot move and physically change enough, they just close and open parts of a big connectome - a very wrong approach - very wasteful, but we will fix it 100%, the idea of physically intricate connectomes isn't wrong - we will fix it in the future [people who try hard never give up, and always win! If you kill them, more experimentalists are born. Improvement is eternal] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:411A:7500:2DBA:26CB:149D:2223 (talk) 03:57, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Peter Beter? Really?
This reference was to a conspiracy newsletter of some sort (or a weird audiobook using the conceit of a conspiracy newsletter). Did no one notice the junior-high joke, "peter beater"? IAmNitpicking (talk) 02:14, 18 February 2022 (UTC)