  Gender is a primary characteristic by which people organize themselves.
Previous research has shown that people tend to unknowingly ascribe gender to
robots based on features of their embodiment. Yet, robots are not necessarily
ascribed the same, or any, gender by different people. Indeed, robots may be
ascribed non-human genders or used as "genderless" alternatives. This underlies
the notion of gender neutrality in robots: neither masculine nor feminine but
somewhere in between or even beyond gender. Responding to calls for gender as a
locus of study within robotics, we offer a framework for conducting an open
living review to be updated periodically as work emerges. Significantly, we
provide an open, formalized submission process and open access dataset of
research on gender neutrality in robots. This novel and timely approach to
consensus-building is expected to pave the way for similar endeavours on other
key topics within human-robot interaction research.
