Your Question: Is Droid Short for Android?

Droid is short for android, meaning “robot.” The word droid is popularly known for its use as the name for intelligent robots in Star Wars.

Is droid and android the same thing?

As nouns the difference between droid and android

is that droid is a robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human while android is a robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male).

Where does the word droid come from?

A droid is a fictional robot possessing some degree of artificial intelligence in the Star Wars science-fiction franchise. The term is a clipped form of “android”, a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human.