[Autism as an example for an android].

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd

VUmc, afd. Metamedica, Amsterdam.

Published: September 2014

Since its introduction in 1921 in the play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek we have used the word 'robot'. Robot stories have a number of themes in common: mortality and immortality, human emotions (and the lack of them), slavery and the possibility of rising up against its (or his?) creator, who wants to sit on Gods throne. The android Data from the Star Trek series The Next Generation shows that there are also medical features which may explain his behaviour.

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