Animoid

What is Animoid?


1.

An animal-like robot; a machine or man-made automaton that resembles and acts like an animal of a specific type or species. Compare to Android.

The term originated during the making of the sci-fi/cyberpunk film "Blade Runner" to describe the artificially created animals bought and sold as pets and status symbols.

"The owl is not real, it's a machine--an animoid."

See blade runner, animal, android, robot, machine, replicant, sci-fi, cyberpunk, Nonlinear

2.

a Humonoid that has definite characteristics of an animal; devoid of basic human ethics and/or behavior; someone solely concerned with their own state of emotion without regard to anything else.

Charles Manson and Elizabeth Taylor are animoids.

See human, animal, humanoid, ethics, corrupt


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