The Maschinenmensch is a metallic automaton shaped like a woman. The film version is different due to limitations of the practical special effects available at the time. Though mention is made of Rotwang's former lover, Hel, they are never directly associated with each other. In the novel, the Maschinenmensch is destroyed. The intertitles of the 2010 restoration of Metropolis quote Rotwang, the robot's creator, referring to his gynoid Maschinenmensch, literally translated as "Machine human". She has been given several names through the decades: Parody (the name Rotwang calls her in the novel), Ultima, Machina, Robotrix, False Maria, Robot Maria, Roboria and Hel. The opening credits refer to her as "the Robot". She was never named in the film, though in the novel her name is Futura. The robot is usually-and erroneously-referred to as "Maria", after the human original whom she impersonates. Maschinenmensch was one of the first fictional robots ever depicted in cinema, and as a result popularized the concept worldwide. She was created by the scientist Rotwang in dedication to his deceased lover, Hel, though in the novel they have no correlation. In the movie, she is played by German actress Brigitte Helm both as a robot and in human guise.
The Maschinenmensch (literally 'machine-human' in German) is a fictional robot featured in Thea von Harbou's novel Metropolis and Fritz Lang's film adaption of the novel. Fictional character in the book and film Metropolis gynoid A 2016 replica of Walter Schulze-Mittendorff's "Maria"
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