Did James Cameron get wrong? Terminator is an Android, not a Cyborg.?

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This question has been on my mind for many many years. When I saw the original Terminator. T-800 was called a cyborg, was this a mistake? As far as I know cyborgs are originally human that have mechanical organs. Examples are Six-Millian-Dollar Man Steve Austin. Androids are robots that looks like human like Data from Star Trek.
So, The Terminator is a machine that looks like Human, it should be android. The exception is the Marcus Wright character who used to be human but was surgically converted. T-1000 is clearly an android, right?
 
Technically, a cyborg is any being that is a melding of both organic and cybernetic parts. It doesn't HAVE to start off as a 100% human and then be altered. It could be a robot that got organic parts hard-wired into it and it would still be considered a cyborg.

An android is indeed a robot made to resemble a human, but an android does not have any organic components to it. Data is 100% synthetic.

Now, the T-800 Terminator is living tissue over a metal endo-skeleton. It has real flesh and blood. Thus, it is a cyborg.
 
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