0 a robot (= machine controlled by computer) that is made to look like a human -- 人型機器人；模擬機器人
1 an operating system (= set of controlling programs) used mainly for mobile devices (= phones and small computers) that you control by touching the screen -- 安卓系統（一種手機作業系統）
For example, would a sophisticated android worship human beings as their creators?
The book does have a number of strengths, and is at its best when musing on the impact androids will have on society.
Too much time is spent explaining in layman's terms complex ideas, at the cost of showing how such technology would be integrated into an android.
What happens, then, when these two concepts (human and android) overrun each other?
Chapter 1 sets the scene by outlining a minimum set of requirements needed to specify what we mean by an android.
They yearn to manufacture human-alien hybrids, ethical androids and genetically programmed clones.
Patches included within the program offered such voices as 'rotating robot', a knowing nod towards the android analogies which have grown up around the vocoder.
Such topographical correspondence is of limited utility to science, which prefers robots to androids, function to form.
