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In a story where sentient robots are commonplace, some of those robots are designed to look feminine. This tends to include sleeker, curvier bodies and bumps on the chest, as well as possible makeup-like patterns on the face. Other [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]] may also be present.

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May not make too much sense when robots in a given universe lack certain "functions" or if the robot is ''male while in construction''.

Fembots tend to be rarer in fiction, simply because it's easier to design a robotic character that doesn't look distinctly feminine than one that does. It's not enough to add [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]] or a [[Breast Plate]]. The obvious question is "why", when robots don't reproduce sexually; but one can also say "why not", and further "why are [[Men Are Generic Women Are Special|genderless machines lumped in with males by default]] anyway?" When this trope applies to [[Humongous Mecha]] instead of robot, they are almost alway piloted by girls.

Fembots tend to be rarer in fiction, simply because it's easier to design a robotic character that doesn't look distinctly feminine than one that does. It's not enough to add [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]] or a [[Breast Plate]]. The obvious question is "why", when robots don't reproduce sexually; but one can also say "why not", and further "why are [[Men Are Generic, Women Are Special|genderless machines lumped in with males by default]] anyway?" When this trope applies to [[Humongous Mecha]] instead of robot, they are almost alway piloted by girls.

The [[Trope Namer|name]] comes from the 1970's ''[[Bionic Woman]]'' and from ''[[Austin Powers]]'', though the fembots in those were [[Robot Girl|robot girls]]. If you're interested, the technical term for these bots is 'gynoid'; same root as 'android', but 'andro' means male.