A Fembot (sometimes spelled Femmebot) is an alternate name for a gynoid depicted in two major productions, The Bionic Woman television series and the Austin Powers film series, which parodied the name. The television show Futurama also uses the fembot term. Fans of the Transformers toylines and related fiction sometimes use the term to refer to Female Transformers, and it was used once in the Beast Wars cartoon series. Gynoid (from Greek gyneka - woman) is a term used to describe a robot designed to look like a human female, as compared to an android modeled after a male. ... The Bionic Woman was a television series which spun off from The Six Million Dollar Man. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Jay Roach, is the first film of the Austin Powers series. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Futurama is an American animated television series created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen (also a writer for The Simpsons). ... Though rare, Transformers with the outward appearances, mannerisms and voices of the female gender do exist in the original cartoon universe - but not in the US Marvel comic book series, where it was specifically stated that Transformers do not have genders. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The bionic heroes' enemy

In The Bionic Woman the Fembots are a line of powerful androids that Jaimie and Steve Austin fought in two episodes in her series, "Kill Oscar" and "The Fembots in Las Vegas". Despite the name, there were also male versions, including ones designed to impersonate particular individuals for the purpose of infilitration. While not truly artificially intelligent, they still had extremely sophisticated programming that allowed them to pass for humans in most situations. Often times however, the face plate would often be dislodged and reveal the machine's facial mechanism, creating the classic image of the menace. Fembots on important missions were often remotely controlled by an operator back at the base who was able to see and hear everything through the machine. The android Data, portrayed by Brent Spiner, from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation An android is a robot made to resemble a human, usually both in appearance and behaviour. ... Part of The Bionic series The Six Million Dollar Man was an American television series about a cyborg working for a U.S. secret service called OSI. The show was based on the novel Cyborg from Martin Caidin, and aired on the ABC network from 1973 to 1978. ... AI, see Ai. ...

Their main weakness was their default operational setting, which produced a unique high pitched sound that only Jaimie could hear, allowing her to detect their presence. However when the operator was aware of this problem, this sound could be turned down. Another way fembots could be discovered was their heavy weight. Steve Austin once discovered that Oscar Goldman had been replaced by a "male fembot" by tossing a pencil on a carpet. When the Goldman fembot unknowingly stepped on the pencil, it crushed it into tiny pieces. However, even when the bionic heroes could openly face the machines in battle, the operator could increase their strength and make them extremely formidable in combat.

Other fembots

The film Starchaser - The Legend of Orin an animated film featured a female robot referred to as a Fembot.

The Austin Powers versions were a parody, which looked like beautiful women dressed in sexually provocative outfits and fought with guns hidden in their breasts which can fire knockout gas or bullets. Originally tested by Dr. Evil on his own guards, they were meant to be a lethal distraction for Austin Powers, while Dr. Evil's plans came to fruitition, their pleasing form and seductive behavior appealing to Austin's "free love" personality. They almost succeeded, but Austin managed to beat them by "outsexing" them, overloading their processors by giving such a sexually charged striptease, that their own programming was overwhelmed, causing their heads to explode. In the second film, Vanessa, Austin's wife, reveals to be one of Dr. Evil's fembots, evidenced when she goes backwards when Austin presses the rewind button at the tv. After the fight, Vannessa explodes, and Austin is excited to be single again. In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Dr. Evil (played by Mike Myers), is the chief villain of the Austin Powers series of films. ... A striptease dancer performing. ...

In Futurama, the term fembot was generally used to describe female robots. In one episode Bender discovers a "femputer" (voiced by Bea Arthur) to be a fembot. Bender Bending Rodríguez (Bending unit 22) Bender Bending Rodríguez (known simply as Bender) is a fictional sapient robot in the Futurama animated cartoon television series. ... Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay on Maude. ...

Bender: You're no femputer. You're a fembot.

Femputer: It's true. I disguised myself as a femputer so I could rule the Amazonians.

Bender: But why?

Femputer: Why? Why? I came here from a faraway planet - a planet ruled by a chauvinistic manputer that was really a manbot. Have you any idea how it feels to be a fembot living in a manbot's manputer's world?

Bender: What?

In the Beast Wars episode "Nemesis", which is the series finale, Rattrap called Blackarachnia an "emasculating fembot" after she took his robotic rat mode's tail to use as a conduit cable. As she sliced off the bladed end of the tail with a claw in order to convert it into a cable (a not-so-subtle visual euphamism for a penectomy, as further demonstrated by Silverbolt's wincing in pain during the action), it is arguable as to how apt the insult is. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Rattrap (Rattle in Japan) is the name of a fictional character from the Transformers toyline that appeared in the Beast Wars and Beast Machines series. ... Blackarachnia is a Transformer character from Beast Wars and Beast Machines. ... A euphemism is a word or phrase used in place of a term that originally could not be spoken aloud (see taboo) or, by extension, terms which they consider to be disagreeable or offensive. ... Penectomy is the surgical removal of the penis for medical reasons. ... Silverbolt is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers Universes. ...

Frank Zappa's album Joe's Garage features the song "Fembot in a wet t-shirt."

In the TV show Just Shoot Me! it's revealed that the character Nina Van Horn played a fembot early in her career.

External links

• Fembot Babydoll Nightgown

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