I'm with you, my recollection is that the author worked hard to not apply a gender, and I think I just visualized the bot as an actual android with no gender, b

I'm with you, my recollection is that the author worked hard to not apply a gender, and I think I just visualized the bot as an actual android with no gender, but when the casting happened I realized at some point I assumed female in there. Best guess is that I applied the author's gender onto the first-person perspective of the character.