Need advice of club members RE: Robot VS Android

[Dennis]

Robot VS Android
We just got some feedback from our beta readers, as usual, it was constructive and insightful. Thanks beta readers.

I have two questions and I’m hoping for some comments from the Goodreads book club members.

The book is futuristic, there are humanlike house helpers and then there are the “mechs” who definitely don’t look human, they can be spiderlike or snakelike, etc. A beta read thinks we should call them all androids, we are calling them all robots.

1 – Would it be confusing to you, the reader if we called some robots (the mechs) and some androids (the humanlike)?

2 – Is the term android as popular/recognizable a term as robot for the general reader?

The book is the Neuromorphs [http://dennismeredith.com/the-neuromo...] and please note I do not add the link for promotion, just if you need/want more information.

Regards,

Joni
Joanne Meredith
editor@glyphus.com

[R.]

Joni:

I view androids as a subset of robots. Therefore, the term robot could be used to describe both humanoid and other forms of computer controlled machines. Android should be used to describe only those machines that emulate human features. I think that most readers today have been exposed to these concepts sufficiently to make this distinction.

R.

[Dennis]

Thanks for your comment. I appreciate you taking the time to answer.