An android whose artificial intelligence and sensitivity is comparable with that of their human creators. As such, ‘the cyborg metaphor has been deployed to challenge disembodied, dualistic, masculinist, and teleological bodies of knowledge’ (Gandy (2005) Int. J. Urb. & Reg. Res. 29, 1, 26). Gandy describes the way that urban environments have become cyborgs through a re-materialization of the city, away from a purely mediated/virtual/digital urban experience, to one that privileges the negotiated in-betweenness of urban space, virtuality, and the human body.