Editing Android (section)

===Warhammer 40,000===
In the 40k lore, mankind once had to wage war against its mechanical creations, Terminator Judgement Day style [[Wat|but on steroids]]. After that, humanity is so paranoid of this happening again that they totally forbade the creation of AIs. They create human-like robots though, at least in the sense that their shape resembles a humanoid being. The best exampe of this are the titans, massive war machines that praise the holy human form by resembling the shape of a human (two arms, two legs, a head. That's it. So much for holy human form). And they do still build [[Land raider|autonomous machines]] that skirt the definitions of intelligence a bit, but their programming is not true AI (or at least that's what the mechanicus says anyway).  In general, though, the Imperium relies much more on cyborgs, both in the way of servitors and the Adeptus Mechanicus. Chaos could in theory create some form of automata, but they rather make chaos s-THINGS! Yes! 

Anyway... Outside of Mankind, the other factions that use their own shape to make artificial beings. In general, any faction that's vaguely humanoid builds constructs that resemble human forms. The best example of an android in the traditional sense are the Leagues of Votann, who live under the control of giant AIs and can create machines smart enough to pass as living, thinking beings. The Necrons are a particular case, due to the living Necrontyr used as a platform for the C'Tan to turn them into the mechanical Necrons. Due to this, they are technically neither cyborgs (they aren't living anymore)nor androids (they used to be alive, so they aren't fully artificially created). Automata would actually work closely with them, in the classic Graeco-Latin sense of the word. But I guess this is up to interpretation of what the Necrons actually are. And let’s not forget the Tau, with their anime-style Mecha with fully integrated AI, like something out of [[Lancer]].