Diffrence between a Bio-android and a Cyborg?

[I.R Joey]

Anyone care to tell me this, or do I just watch that episode of Outlaw Star where they talk about Humans, droids, and cyborgs again?

[The Mad Hatter]

Just sounds like a wacky Japanese way of saying "cyborg" to me.

Or, more specifically, calling a robot an android just to be different.

[killercroc]

Well we know that Cyborg is short for Cybernetic Organism. I've always thought of this as being something that started out human and then got technoed out. Like the 6 million dollar man, Universal Soldier, the Reavers and even Vader.

I would assume that at bio android started out as an android with human elements. Terminator or Data.

Or maybe it's the other way around.

[DR. BELCH]

--wrong, but a "droid" is a robot built in the image of a human, like C3PO in Star Wars, but having no human components in its construction. Whereas a cyborg has both flesh and metal halves, like Robocop. But "bio android" sort of confuses that point. I mean, by Croc's definition Darth Vader would be a cyborg, as he was human but gradually became more dependent on his suit to live, thus nearly eradicating the part of him that was born Anakin Skywalker....

[The Mad Hatter]

Well, R2D2 is also called a droid, and he was built in the image of, apparently, a trash can.

[killercroc]

According to Merriam Webster an android is a mobile robot usually with a human form. A Cyborg is a bionic human.

So that's pretty much what we were saying. And it makes sense then that a bio-android would have a human element, maybe even personality.

BTW Merriam Webster (http://www.m-w.com) is the dictionary site I used to look this up. It's pretty cool if you need a definition. Now I've gotta go look up bionic.