Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero made an immediate splash by introducing the fandom to two formidable new fighters, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2, whose exact nature is potentially confusing. From the moment of their reveal in the early promotional material for the movie, the Gammas revived one of the longest-running points of confusion in Dragon Ball lore, dating all the way back to the days of Androids 17 and 18. In fact, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero might just make things more confusing.
Ever since it was revealed that the Red Ribbon Army would be at the center of this Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero's events, it's been clear that androids would factor into the film somehow. Dr. Gero assured that the legacy of the organization would forever be entwined with these man-made fighters with his work in the Android and Cell Sagas. However, there was always one glaring issue when it came to the handling of this detail, with the English dub in particular. The very use of the term "android" was actually not always correct and led to some confusion on the topic.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero's handling of the Gammas might actually make that confusion even worse. Piccolo sees to that fairly early on with a single line. His line is not only confusing on its own, but it's not even consistent with Dragon Ball's own android history. The way the Gammas are treated throughout the film makes their nature fairly evident, yet the label applied to them simply makes things more complicated.
The Gammas Make Dragon Ball's Android Confusion Worse
Piccolo is largely to blame for the confusion of the movie's terminology when he first encounters one of the cybernetic superheroes. Gamma 2 makes his presence felt almost immediately when he attacks Piccolo and fights him in a relatively one-sided affair. Towards the beginning of that clash, Piccolo notes that he can't sense Gamma 2's energy, meaning that makes him "either a robot or an android." Without even getting into the way that statement twists the lore of Dragon Ball into knots, the lexical aspect of that distinction is already suspect. An android is generally understood to be a robot, built to resemble a human. Unless Piccolo was being sarcastic - which is entirely possible, it is Piccolo - he basically just suggested that Gamma 2 was either a robot or a robot. So, already, Piccolo in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero isn't off to a great start with his clarification efforts.
However, the lore complication brought about by Piccolo's line makes matters even worse. Longtime viewers of the series know that the most famous of the androids - Androids 17 and 18, as well as Dr. Gero (Android 20), in a far more extreme example - weren't actually androids, they were cyborgs. Dr. Gero nabbed a pair of teenagers off the street and modified them with advanced cybernetics and biomechanical parts. He then went on to (somehow) transplant his own human brain into robotic body. So if Piccolo were using "Android" and "Cyborg" interchangeably, and his definition of "Robot" referred to a purely artificial being, then the Gammas would fit his "Robot" definition, surely. Except longtime Dragon Ball fans also know that Android 16 was actually wholly artificial - a true android. So the confusion creeps back up, yet again.
The Gammas are treated as solely artificial beings. They make metal clangs when struck, they operate entirely on programmed directives and advanced computing algorithms, the works. Based on all the information presented in the movie, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2 aren't just superheroes. They're actual, bona fide androids, whether Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero labels them properly or not.