Android and Gynoid

Androids, rarely called Mechanoids, are a type of robot that typically resemble humans, usually male ones. Gynoids are similar, but typically resemble female humans.

History
The word android was originally used to refer to all human-looking robots, robots with a female human-looking appearance are called gynoids.

The earliest use of the word android appears to have originated in 1728 encyclopedia Cyclopædia by Ephraim Chambers (then called "Androides"), which was in reference to a human-looking automaton supposedly created by St. Albertus Magnus. By the late 1700s, androids started to appear in exhibits for display purposes and by 1863, the word android would appear in US patents referring to human-looking automaton toys.

With the introduction of Karel Čapek's famous play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), the word 'robot' was introduced, which was often used interchangeably with the other, though robots was used more to refer to mechanical humans, animals and other beings. Authors of stories have often used android in more diverse ways, such as in the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, where the artificially-created humans called Replicants are used as slaves. These Replicant have no mechanical components, but are called androids nonetheless.

Androids

 * Data (Star Trek)
 * Replicants (Blade Runner)

Gynoids

 * Galatea (Bicentennial Man)