Miscategorized Media, or: Bummer, No Fembots.

[jolshefsky]

And then Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) ... there is technically a female android in a kind of prostitute vending machine, but she's all dusty and broken and only briefly seen, and then the ship is voiced by a woman. I guess I'm including it because there's a bunch of male androids, including just the top half of one used as a kind of music-player, but despite that, none are female.

From IMDb: "A farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet Akir from dark forces that threaten to wipe them out from the face of the universe. A battle stretching beyond the stars begins here."

[jolshefsky]

I was just checking out the Omeleto channel on YouTube and ... why do searches suck so bad? Type in "robot" and you get a bunch of unrelated stuff. And friggin' Google destroying the word "android" because you can "watch on Android TV" ...

Sorry ... ranting there.

One more thing, I keep wanting to spell it Omeletto, but it's Omeleto.

Anyway, there were a few that showed promise:

• Black Box (2021): "A lonely wife tries to rekindle a dying marriage, then discovers a life-changing secret." She's a robot. That's the answer. She's a robot replica of the husband's dead wife, and he's making a new version to replace her. There were some special effects in the basement, so I think it just barely ekes by non-GINO. (Oops. I mean "*spoilers*".)
• Love Machine (2024): "In the not-so-distant future, two women ask each other intimate questions on a date-things get weird." Two women on a date, and one admits to being an AI. She makes fun of a lot of the AI tropes, and she definitely is an AI, unless she's joking, no really, just kidding. I couldn't figure out whether she was or not. I'll count it as GINO anyway, and it was kind of funny, and the "AI" did some good comedic and sometimes unhinged acting.
• When Unfettered (2023): I had seen this before, pretty much GINO of a female android whose charge, an old man, dies, leaving his family to decide her fate. "A unique caregiver navigates an unexpected connection after their charge passes away, leading them on a transformative journey of self-discovery."

And then these two:

• Sprites (2018): A couple male artificial actors try out for a role while the director debates the whole thing with the producer. Not very good overall. "Actors are obsolete. Now there are SPRITES."
• Robotica (2025): "A woman receives a mediocre performance evaluation and contemplates how to achieve her raise. It seems an update may be in order." Metaphorically robotic, where the protagonist wishes to get an upgrade, and does in the end, but it's GINO.

And finally some that had promising descriptions but didn't pay off:

• Double Vision (2018): "A couple uses advanced role-play technology to spice up their marriage, but the game takes an unexpected turn as they begin to call their realities into question." They basically see one another as a different person: she just sees him younger, but he sees her as a different woman. It's not robots at all.
• Éclair (2016): "When a gentleman is confronted with an unusual request from his date, he is forced to choose between his firm belief in reality or the attraction of her fantasy." It was a rape fantasy she wanted, and she had a contract to do it. And it's nothing to do with robots.
• Who Among Us (2019): A goofy game show with "one android hidden among humans" and guess what, it's the male host of the show. Of course it was the host. "Contestant Seven painfully unravels on a live game show where one android is hidden among humans."

*Edit*

I found the "SciFi" list on the channel and checked out:

• Virtually (2019): "A woman escapes with virtual reality." Just virtual reality, no robots.
• Uncanny Valley (2015): "A gamer faces reality." I didn't watch too closely, but it seemed that said "gamer" is a military robot of some kind who thinks he's in a video game. It's not about The Uncanny Valley at all.
• Wired (2024): "A woman fights her A.I." Kind of a smart-home-gone-wrong kind of thing, but no robots.
• Likewise, Olive (2024): "A father and daughter wait." They wait for some kind of procedure ... it seemed like he would get to "visit" his dead parents, but then he meets a woman also waiting. Something like a time machine thing. Kind of a fun twist.

[tdlsn]

friggin' Google destroying the word "android"

Correction: Google HAS destroyed the word "android" for our purposes at least a generation ago.
Btw, keep 'em coming.