Started writing a robot pov story (third-person limited pov, the most common for a human protagonist) and realized pronouns are a genuine challenge for realistic (hard sf) non-anthropomorphic robots. Asimov used the R suffix, but stuck to androids so didn’t need to solve it.
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Gender is useful for bio because it's directly related to reproduction. So in robots it has to be a primal difference, like hardware and software perhaps. Or cloud and local. Or embodied and not.
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