Do 17 and 18 age?

[Anonymous Friend]

Recently saw a peice of art work that depicted an old Krillin with a young looking 18. I don't recall any specific dialog about this, but I could be not remembering. Will these two greatly outlive their families?

[Grimlock]

Yes.

[Lionel]

Later interview statements seems to lead towards that conclusion but you do have this exchange between #18 and Gero where the latter admitted that eternal life was intended reason for rendering himself as a cyborg.

Spoiler:

I think Gero either miscalculated his notion of "eternal" life or the means of preserving himself allow for an indefinite period of consciousness and functionality. Gero is almost entirely mechanical except for his brain which appears to be in some type of liquid preservative.

[ZeroNeonix]

Interesting. So the biological androids like 17 and 18 are basically the T-800s from Terminator. They age, just very slowly. As if we needed more parallels between the two. lol

[TobyS]

Gero could just mean the total artificial constrict types don't age

I thought Toriyama said they age but slower?