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While I am hardly an expert, the explanation that I've heard is that a robot is a preprogrammed mechanical device, an automaton means a self-operating machine (essentially the same thing as a robot) and an android refers to a robot or automaton that physically resembles a human. The female equivalent of an android is a gynoid (from the Greek meaning "female").

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