What is the difference between a robot and a cyborg?

A robot

A Cyborg

We have watched many films where the robots try to conquer the world and take control over the people or where superheroes or what so called cyborgs with supernatural powers defend us from something evil which wants to harm the human kind. Usually, the media portraits robots as the bad ones and the cyborgs as the good ones. To understand what is true, we need first to know what are the robots and what are the cyborgs.








Firstly, cyborgs are born human.Their bodies are human and have some external parts in them. Their supernatural abilities are acquired through life experience, for example, a tragedy in the family or an accident. What is more, being a cyborg, one can feel, taste and think as normal person does. He or she can suffer, be ill or get injured even though many of the cyborgs has the ability to regenerate. 

On the other hand, the robots are usually made by the human. Being artificially born, they cannot feel or think themselves if they are not programmed to do so. Sometimes the robots may look like human externally but inside they are made of various materials. In many films the robots are presented as enemies of the living people because they want to gain control over us, the creation wants to get superior than the creator.

 This is how media portrays both robots and cyborgs and in that way make us believe what we see is what it actually is.