I'm hoping somebody more familiar with the Star Wars universe can fill me in. Are there any fully human looking droids in Star Wars? There's obviously none in the movies, everything looks robotic, but the apparent tech level seems fully capable of making a human looking droid. Those cybernetics can look pretty convincing. I don't see any reason they couldn't be made into a functioning droid.

Is there a cultural taboo against it, or is it just impractical?

Thanks all

They have HRDs - Human Replica Droid - there are very few examples though, among them Guri. They have been expanded to include other species than human.

Most sentients would not want droids looking human, or at least covered in sythflesh. So the next best thing is a droid that even under close scrutiny appears human. Which Human replica droids are the result. Tho only one person during the Rebellion has been able to do it.

I don't figure they'd be common, but I was thinking for espionage or assassination, I'm sure there are forces that would utilize something like this. The droid could even have a variety of faces that it could swap.

Yeah Guri is your... woman? Take note though that she's (and other HRDs) are rigged to appear human on scanners and such too.

As for nonHRDs looking more human, it's a mix of taboo and practicality. Remember in Star Wars droids are property, no different then a datapad, or a landspeeder. It's a product made by a company to sell to organics.

From the practicality angle, why bother? It's extra expense and it doesn't really help the droid do it's job, in many cases it actually hinders the droid.

From the taboo angle, aside from confusing the issue of droid rights in a way manufacturers really don't want to, you also end up with uncanny valley issues. If the cute new Corellian Maid housekeeping droid doesn't look human enough, it becomes creepy, if it looks too human, it's creepy. If it's perfectly human, then why should it be bought and sold like a slave?

This could be adjusted based on the campaign, of course, but I believe they make a big deal in Shadows of the Empire about just how incredibly expensive it was to develop Guri to appear so human-looking.

Prince Xizor's status as wealthy shipping magnate and crime lord is one of the factors that allowed him to spend that much money to have her developed, if I remember correctly.

This could be adjusted based on the campaign, of course, but I believe they make a big deal in Shadows of the Empire about just how incredibly expensive it was to develop Guri to appear so human-looking.

Prince Xizor's status as wealthy shipping magnate and crime lord is one of the factors that allowed him to spend that much money to have her developed, if I remember correctly.

It is, but as I mentioned, part of her deal is she is designed to appear human, even on most scanning gear. So she's not just an iPad shoved into a realdoll chassis, she's an iPad in a realdoll chassis that can pass an MRI if the doctor isn't looking too closely.

And that's the weirdest post I've made on this forum yet...

Probably the weirdest I've read.

This could be adjusted based on the campaign, of course, but I believe they make a big deal in Shadows of the Empire about just how incredibly expensive it was to develop Guri to appear so human-looking.

Prince Xizor's status as wealthy shipping magnate and crime lord is one of the factors that allowed him to spend that much money to have her developed, if I remember correctly.

It is, but as I mentioned, part of her deal is she is designed to appear human, even on most scanning gear. So she's not just an iPad shoved into a realdoll chassis, she's an iPad in a realdoll chassis that can pass an MRI if the doctor isn't looking too closely.

And that's the weirdest post I've made on this forum yet...

Haha

I wasn't disputing any of that, I just wanted to add the details about how expensive the droid was. Was this maybe because I used the words "human-looking"? I just used those words as a shorthand for whatever words would be necessary to describe the complete details of how Guri appears human.

I just wanted to add the flavor that these droids are not just walking around all over the place. One of the most successful crimelords in the galaxy spent millions and millions of credits to make one, and they're pretty rare.

The old Star Wars Marvel Comics from back in the 80's had low-tech human replica droids show up a few times. I say low-tech in that they appeared human in appearance, but any detailed analysis (especially a medical one) revealed them to be droids. They weren't very common, though I specifically recall there being a Leia version that was used as a decoy.

Guri's an exception (a bloody expensive one at 9 million credits) in that it takes a lot more to determine that she's really not human. In the Shadows of the Empire book (her debut), Lando and Leia arrange to have a interview/meeting with Guri on the context of arranging for Leia and Xizor to meet, with Lando setting up all sorts of diagnostic gear. And said diagnostic gear came back with a lot of odd results, such as her skin only being a decade old when Guri appears to be an attractive blonde in her late 20's/early 30's, or that her muscle fiber wasn't what you'd expect to find in a human, and that her body temperature was well below the average for a human, enough that a normal human would be suffering from hypothermia. They still had no idea she was a droid though.

I've seen examples of droids that are shaped identically to humans without bothering to have synthflesh. Wearing proper gear that covers the body (heavy clothing with hoods, full body armor, etc.), they can pass as humans to general observation. Nothing like a HRD, but nowhere near the price either.

It some place in the star wars universe operating in contradiction to Disney's will. There is likely a place where a sentient can get their freak on with a droid covered in snyhflesh

I also think there is a negative stigma towards droids, specifically after the horrors of the Clone Wars, with millions of droids trying to kill millions of sentients. Any kind of disguised droid would be VERY expensive, and VERY illegal. Probably be about the same penalty for being caught with a lightsaber.

It some place in the star wars universe operating in contradiction to Disney's will. There is likely a place where a sentient can get their freak on with a droid covered in snyhflesh

Where there's a technology, the porn industry will use it to fill a perceived void. The sad reality is that sexbots are probably the most popular use for a human appearing droid.

I'm guessing Disney won't make that official canon however.

It some place in the star wars universe operating in contradiction to Disney's will. There is likely a place where a sentient can get their freak on with a droid covered in snyhflesh

Where there's a technology, the porn industry will use it to fill a perceived void. The sad reality is that sexbots are probably the most popular use for a human appearing droid.

I'm guessing Disney won't make that official canon however.

That was one of the driving forces behind faster internet speeds.

It some place in the star wars universe operating in contradiction to Disney's will. There is likely a place where a sentient can get their freak on with a droid covered in snyhflesh

Well, it was straight out said in Shadows of the Empire that Xizor enjoyed the carnal pleasures with Guri many, many times. I guess part of that 9 million went to making sure she was fully functional. . . .

That was one of the driving forces behind faster internet speeds.

And why VHS won the video wars over Beta - the porn industry threw their not-insignificant support behind it.

Guri also had 5kg of "internal storage" which somewhat damages my calm...