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Armored Suits, also called Arm Suits or arm-slaves, are the heavily armored powered exoskeletons of the Ghost in the Shell world. They range from remote-capable early frames to hand-weapon combat units, and appear in both Japanese service…

Autistic mode is a self-imposed cut-off state for a cyberbrain in Ghost in the Shell. By severing its link to the network, a cyberbrain in this mode neither transmits nor receives, sealing the user off from outside contact for privacy or…

A Bioroid is an android built in part or in full from biological material. What sets it apart from a cyberized human is the absence of a cyberbrain, marking it as manufactured life rather than an augmented person.

Cebots are miniature robots in Ghost in the Shell, each sitting in the centimeter class at roughly one to ten centimeters across. Born of nanotechnology yet far bigger than any nanomachine, a great many are styled to resemble insects.

The cyberbrain is Ghost in the Shell's signature technology: a human brain physically merged with electronics so it can plug straight into computer networks. Coined by the series itself, the term covers both the augmented organ and the…

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a being that runs on both artificial and natural systems at once. The word dates to 1960, when researchers coined it while weighing the merits of self-regulating human-machine bodies for life in space.

Decot is a piece of slang blended from the words decoy and robot, coined during a period of armed conflict and carried into everyday speech in Motoko Kusanagi's era. People reach for the term when talking about prosthetic frames that a…

Echelon ranks as the biggest signals-interception grid ever built in the setting, a shared effort rather than one nation's tool. A coalition of allied states pools its reach to pull private messages out of the global data stream on a scale…

The Fuchikoma is a single-seat walker tank fielded by Public Security Section 9 in Masamune Shirow's original manga. Fitted with its own artificial mind, it fights alongside operatives while showing off a curious, oddly childlike streak…

Being fully prosthetic means a person's flesh has been traded out entirely for machinery, cyberbrain included, leaving only the Ghost behind as proof of a once-human origin. Stand Alone Complex leans on the idea heavily, using its…

A Ghost Dive is the act of channeling one's very consciousness into the network and moving through it as if it were a real place. To the diver, cyberspace stops being data on a screen and becomes a three-dimensional world to walk, offering…

A gynoid is an android fashioned in female form. The type steps into the spotlight in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, where a line of such machines serves as the film's central antagonists, artificial through and through yet crafted to…

Intercepters are a variety of micromachine that lets an outsider tap into what a person's cyberbrain sees. With them, a third party can turn someone's own eyes into a hidden camera or strip that person of sight entirely.

The Japanese Miracle names a cloud of micromachines engineered to scrub radiation out of the environment. The breakthrough handed Japan a monopoly on cleaning contaminated land and, with it, a path back to standing among the world's great…

The Logicoma is a four-legged walker tank that debuts in Ghost in the Shell: Arise as Section 9's aging, budget-grade think tank. Built as a logistics hauler rather than a fighter, the model designated LCM22 lugs supplies and follows…

Mecha saturate the world of Ghost in the Shell, swinging between hero and villain roles while carrying Masamune Shirow's philosophical themes. They range from spider-legged think tanks to armored suits and cyborg walkers, and most of the…

MicroMachined Rice, or MM-rice, is grain engineered with micromachine technology to yield far more than ordinary crops. Cheap, hardy, and productive, it eased the world's hunger problem, though the patents behind it sparked bitter disputes…

Micromachines, also labeled nanites, are the microscopic engines that permanently remade the Ghost in the Shell world and sparked the Japanese Miracle. They erased diseases, solved hunger, scrubbed away pollution and radiation, and…

The Neurochip is a synthetic brain component from the Ghost in the Shell world, developed by Dr. Asuda during his time at Kenbishi. Its purpose is radical: to let a Ghost reside inside a fully mechanical Cyberbrain with no living tissue…

Operators are a class of android support unit first appearing in the Stand Alone Complex series. Built as gynoids in office-worker attire, they run the clerical and logistical side of Public Security Section 9, from manning terminals to…

A Psymech is a specialist in cyborg brain work within Ghost in the Shell, part physician and part hardware engineer. The title fuses the Greek root psy, meaning psychological, with mechanic, capturing a trade that maintains the delicate…

The Tachikoma is an AI-driven walker tank from Ghost in the Shell, a spider-like combat vehicle that doubles as both troop transport and mobile weapons platform. Section 9 fields nine of these think tanks, each run by its own childlike…

Ghost in the Shell plays out in a future transformed by breakthroughs spanning prosthetics and bionics, engineered biology, robotics, machine intelligence, and the cybernetics that fuse mind to hardware. The whole setting boils down most…

Thermoptic camouflage is the active-cloaking technology that lets Section 9 operatives and their Tachikoma tanks melt into their surroundings and turn nearly invisible to the eye. By broadcasting the scene behind the wearer, it renders a…

Think tank is the informal label for a robotic weapons platform that leans on artificial intelligence to sharpen its abilities in Ghost in the Shell. The name most often points to the franchise's walking tanks, spider-legged machines that…

The Uchikoma is a single-seat walker tank fielded by Section 9 in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Painted green with a broader rear pod, it echoes the Tachikoma while borrowing from the older Fuchikoma, and it steps into the…