Here’s another one for you. Ships and rifles for some reason are female in English. The enterprise is a she. Interestingly countries can be a fatherland or motherland or homeland. But robots pick their identity.
data, Walle, and C-3PO use a male archetype. Interestingly data is at one point captures by a collector who insults him by using the pronoun it. But Eva and Lal are both female and choose a female archetype so use she. But then there’s the curious Case of r2d2. No penis, not noticeably male, no voice nor even noticeably a human shape. More like a walking tin can. But yet”he appears to have picked up a slight flutter”.