The Girl and the Robot Proto-gynoids, sexbots, fembots, gynoids, portrait of the robot-female as the “Dutch wife”

Although robots appeared very early on in literature or on the screen, they are regularly associated with the idea of a threat that is amplified by their inhumanity. The question becomes still more problematic with the emergence of robots with an exclusively feminine appearance. Here the particularities of the robot-female character are examined while outlining the different discourses that accompanied it according to the era, the politics of the screen writers, or the doxa of the time.