In the Enuma elish, the Babylonian version of the Creation Epic, it was Marduk who conceived the idea of 'creating a clever device to help the gods'. Revealing this idea to his father, Enki, Marduk said, 'I shall bring into existence a robot; it shall be charged with the service of the gods and thus they will be relived.' Enki, however, answered him by suggesting a different proposition, that of 'putting the mark of the gods onto a race which already existed.' (Adding their genetic imprint to a race of humans already on planet earth.)
It is explained that a race 'neither male nor female' were created for the purpose -- namely that of venturing into 'No Man's Land to rescue the goddess Inanna. The true nature of these creatures was 'eunuch'. Possessing organs of both sexes, they were of no real sex. They were androids or robots.
Holding a wand or weapon, these androids belonged to a class of emissaries known as Gallu - 'demons' . These Gallu were described as 'those who had no mother, who have no father; neither sister or brother; nor wife or child; they know not food; they know not water. They flutter in the skies over earth like wardens.
Have these androids of ancient lore returned in recent times?
This is a pertinent question, because of the way in which the occupants of UFO's have been described by witnesses who have encountered them to be of undetermined sex; a plastic skin; conical heads; oval eyes -- humanlike in shape but definitely not human; and behaving like androids. The description of these 'creatures' is very similar to ancient descriptions of the Gallu -- and is probably not by accident.