As said by the officer in the story, "In this age of Realien advancement, who knows what goes on in the mind of those responsible for these mechanical dolls." The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers (1936) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future stories (1940–1944).
This story features an artificial humanlike robot named Hadaly. The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve (1886). The term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons. By the late 1700s, "androides", elaborate mechanical devices resembling humans performing human activities, were displayed in exhibit halls. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use (as "Androides") to Ephraim Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. While the term "android" is used in reference to human-looking robots in general, a robot with a female appearance can also be referred to as a gynoid.
Early example of the term androides used to describe human-like mechanical devices, London Times, 22 December 1795
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