Protocol droids are also used for military service, whether as administrators, couriers or spies. Protocol droids are used to aid in communications during diplomatic or business negotiations and often function as personal assistants to their owners. Protocol droid Ī protocol droid specializes in translation, etiquette and cultural customs, and is typically humanoid in appearance. Within the Star Wars universe, a class system is used to categorize different droids depending on their skill-set: first class droids (physical, mathematical and medical sciences), second class droids (engineering and technical sciences), third class droids (social sciences and service functions), fourth class droids (security and military functions), and fifth class droids (menial labor and other non-intelligence functions). Periodic memory wipes can prevent this from happening, but those who manage to escape this fate will begin to develop their own personalities.
However, over time droids may develop sentience on their own as they accumulate experience. According to background material, most droids lack true sentience and are given processing abilities sufficient only to carry out their assigned function. The franchise, which began with the 1977 film Star Wars, features a variety of droids designed to perform specific functions. The name "Omnidroid" was used with permission of Lucasfilm for the 2004 Pixar movie, The Incredibles, referring to a line of lethal robots built by the film's antagonist. The term was also used for the Lucasfilm projects EditDroid, a non-linear editing system, and SoundDroid, an early digital audio workstation. This line of phone has been expanded to include other Android-based phones released under Verizon, including the HTC Droid Eris, the HTC Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, and Motorola Droid Pro. Motorola's late-2009 Google Android-based cell phone is called the Droid.
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The term "Droid" has been used by Verizon Wireless under licence from Lucasfilm, for their line of smartphones based on the Android operating system. Lucasfilm registered "droid" as a trademark in 1977. Behind the scenes ĭroids are performed using a variety of methods, including robotics, actors inside costumes (in one case, on stilts), and computer animation. The word "droid" has been a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd since 1977. It's not known if Lucas knew of this reference when he wrote Star Wars, or if he came up with the term independently.
However, the word does have a precedent: science fiction writer Mari Wolf used the word in her story "Robots of the World! Arise!" in 1952. Writer and director George Lucas first used the term "droid" in the second draft script of Star Wars, completed 28 January 1975.
The word "android" itself stems from the New Latin word "androīdēs", meaning "manlike", itself from the Ancient Greek ἀνδρος (andrós) (genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr), "man (adult male)" or "human being") + -ειδής (-eidḗs), itself from εἶδος (eîdos, "form, image, shape, appearance, look"). The term is a clipped form of " android", a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human. In the Star Wars space opera franchise, a droid is a fictional robot possessing some degree of artificial intelligence. Robot in the "Star Wars" franchise Droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, first featured in Star Wars (1977)
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