I’ve been using “mechanoid” as a classification (similar to humanoid, etc), but a friend pointed out that it’s both too generic, and that said inorganics might just consider it biology, with organics being the weird outlier.
I’ve been using “mechanoid” as a classification (similar to humanoid, etc), but a friend pointed out that it’s both too generic, and that said inorganics might just consider it biology, with organics being the weird outlier.
Fair point. I was rather thinking about it from more of a human categorisation point of view. If they’re not all mechanical, or weren’t constructed, I can definitely see some limits with using “mechanoid” as a descriptor.
Like how you could categorise a lot of mammals as organoid, but it lacks the nuances compared to having other words like mammalian or humanoid.