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. A 2016 replica of Walter Schulze-Mittendorff's "Maria"
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