Talk:Robot/@comment-50.201.104.14-20150817144808/@comment-187.37.97.76-20160226181455

it makes no sense to refer to robots in general with he/she (it's even a bit unaccurate to refer to a couple of biological beings with he/she), seeing as sex/gender is not something that needs to exist on robots since they don't really reproduce - the reason some fictional and some real "robots" or AIs are given gender is usually just to make them look and act "closer" to humans or to look nice (in which case you would use he/she pronouns)

robot doesn't seem to have been designed with any particular gender in mind, so using "they" would be more appropriate if you consider robot as being an individual - i dunno if robot is even supposed to be considered an individual or a "person", though, in which case "it" would be more appropriate