MIT's Cyborg Psychology explains: Cyborg vs Android vs Humanoid AI
patpat_mit · x · 2026-10-13
MIT Media Lab's Cyborg Psychology group published an illustrated explainer disambiguating three often-confused terms:
- Humanoid: a machine with a broadly humanlike body — head, torso, arms, legs. It may use AI, but "humanoid" describes form, not intelligence.
- Android: a humanoid that more closely resembles a person via lifelike features or behavior; the boundary with humanoid varies across robotics and sci-fi.
- Cyborg: a living organism whose biological functions are supported or modified by technological systems — human-machine fusion rather than a purely artificial being.
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