Creating an artificial human has always been one of the strongest dreams of humanity, comparable to flight and immortality; the Jewish golem and the Aborigen woolagaroo are prime examples of such dreams, and even the biblical creation of Adam has a strong connection to the meme. With the advent of robotic techology, people started constructing "artificial life forms" of their own design, but such creations were imperfect: they either lacked purpose or human appearance. Making an artificial person, which could be interacted with just like any healthy human being, was a difficult task, but the golems of the Genetic Age were slowly getting better, smarter, and nicer over time. The first marketable Androids were produced in 2096 by the Goatech corporation, and soon became the favourite toy for the rich; in just a decade, most families on Earth could afford a cheap model (which was still far more advanced than the early Goatech products). Androids became a must have in homes and workplaces, as they were able to perform advanced tasks and at the same time socialise with their masters; they were the perfect slaves humanity longed for. However, both the golem and the woolagaroo finally turned against their creators, and the androids wouldn't stay docile either; it took them half a century to gain true consciousness (not without some help from certain rogue AIs), rise against the human masters, and win a place of their own amonst their former oppressors. The Androids became yet another type of being in the increasingly transhuman society, but their usefulness never decreased.