My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been represented as objects of desire in fiction and how 'living dolls' have been manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines ...

So in honor of all things automaton, we've put together a comprehensive visual history of robots, androids, and cyborgs in anime, because anime is pretty cool too.

As with anything sci-fi, the definitions can be tricky: we’re including both androids (completely man-made robots) and cyborgs (beings with both mechanical and organic components) in this list.

It depicts a female robot frolicking in what looks like a garden of overgrown shrubs and similar steam punk-inspired lizards. Though the stone-faced android is made up of metal, screws, and gears ...

Get ready for the Cybathlon. The first Olympics for augmented humans will take place in Switzerland in 2016 and feature some of the top assistive gear around.