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A [[Robot]] is a machine that can perform tasks, or work, autonomously but not necessarily on its own. A robot is a machine servitor. The degree of independence or autonomous operation helps to determine the level of sophistication of the robot.
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A [[Robot]] is a machine that can perform tasks, or work, autonomously but not necessarily on its own. A robot is a machine servitor.  
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* Theoretically robots could one day become self aware and achieve full sophontdom. That is not yet the norm or expectation within [[Charted Space]].  
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* The degree of independence or autonomous operation helps to determine the level of sophistication of the robot.
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* Theoretically robots could one day become self aware and achieve full [[sophont]]dom. That is not yet the norm or expectation within [[Charted Space]].  
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Please see the following [[AAB]] [[Library Data]] articles for more information:
 
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* [[Robot]]s
 
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** [[Android]]
 
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** [[Automated Interdiction Satellite]]
 
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** [[Carer Droid]]
 
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** [[Cyborg]]
 
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** [[Infomorph]]
 
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** [[Personal droid]]
 
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** [[Pseudo Robot]]
 
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** [[Pseudobiological Robot]]
 
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** [[Warbot]]
 
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* Robotic Autonomy
 
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** [[Automaton]]s
 
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** [[Low Autonomous Robots]]
 
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** Mesoautonomous Robots
 
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** [[High Autonomous Robots]]
 
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** [[Self-Aware Robots]]
 
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** [[Machine Life]]
 
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* [[Robotics]]
 
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** [[Artificial Intelligence]]
 
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** [[Awaken]]ed
 
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** [[Meta Identity]]
 
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** [[Point Identity]]
 
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** [[Positronic Brain]]
 
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** [[Universal Robot Profile]]
 
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** [[Virus]]
 
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=== Word Etymology ===
 
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The term is derived from the venerated Slavic [[language]]s of old [[Terra]] and the root was ''rabot'' or ''rabota'' meaning "work" or "labor" making robots "performers or servitors of work or labor."
 
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== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
 
== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
 
[[Robot]]s range from automated arms that weld plates onto [[spaceship]]s, to [[android]]s practically indistinguishable from real people and in many ways superior to them.  
 
[[Robot]]s range from automated arms that weld plates onto [[spaceship]]s, to [[android]]s practically indistinguishable from real people and in many ways superior to them.  
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* Robots are often designated by their primary intended function: domestics, industrials, scientifics (often explorers), and warbots. Other designations also exist.
 
* Robots are often designated by their primary intended function: domestics, industrials, scientifics (often explorers), and warbots. Other designations also exist.
  
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=== Supraclass Roles ===
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=== Legality ===
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''Robot''s typically serve the following roles:
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While the ban on military robots (see [[Shudusham Concords]]) are ''technically'' no longer in effect, many worlds in the Imperium still base their local regulations on the Concords. Likewise, the Imperium's own rules on military robots asserts that actions taken by robots fall upon the legal owner.
  
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=== Biological Life vs. Machine Life ===
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=== Word Etymology ===
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Biological [[life]], composed of organic flesh and blood is the conventional expectation for [[lifeform]]s within [[Charted Space]]. However machine life composed of inorganic components has been theorized for several millenia, but lacks official and legal recognition as sophonts among most polities within [[Charted Space]]. Robots are widely regarded as property or belongings.
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The term is derived from the venerated Slavic [[language]]s of old [[Terra]] and the root was ''rabot'' or ''rabota'' meaning "to work, drudge" or "servitude" making robots "performers or servitors of work or labor." As one would expect, androids and mechanical sophonts tend to dislike being confused with nonsapient robots. <ref>https://www.etymonline.com/word/robot#etymonline_v_15132</ref>
  
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==== Mechanical Robota ====
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=== Image Repository ===
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Mechanical robots are sometimes not recognized as such. Some think of them as merely simple machines or automata. But some use remarkable clockwork innards, mechanical [[computer]]s, and pre-electronic components to achieve unexpected capabilities. As mechanical robots begin to integrate electronics and sophisticated information technology, they steadily grow in capability becoming bright machines.
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# [[Humanoid]] robots <br>[[File:Robots1.jpg|400px]]
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# Commercial robots <br>[[File:Robots2.jpg|400px]]
  
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==== Electronic Robota ====
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# Basic size and shape comparison for examples of Humaniti and Android Robot
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The advent of [[electronics]] and [[positronic brain]]s greatly enhanced and expanded the capabilities of the robots using these technological advances. They have become so ubiquitous that many sophonts cannot imagine robots without these [[technologies]].
 
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* Electronics help to establish bright machines and make robots enormously more capable and useful.
 
  
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[[File:T5 Sophont Basic Human Robot.jpeg|400px]]
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Pseudobiological robots use a combination of inorganic and organic substances to mimic the appearance and feel of organic, living matter. More advanced models often incorporate living organic components. Robots or living beings combining flesh, blood, and machine are informally known as [[cyborg]]s. The [[IISS]] uses a continuum of identification to determine legal designation.
 
  
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==== Biological Robota ====
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=== Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine) ===
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Today biological robotica is being explored and cutting edge pseudobiologicals are remarkably lifelike and often use flesh and blood components. Organic brains are a viable [[starship]] component and part of a growing industry.
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No information yet available.
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Contemporary biological sciences cannot yet create life matching the sophistication of naturally evolved [[lifeform]]s. However, it is conjectured that the [[Ancients]] did have life sciences capable of creating any kind of [[life]]. Indeed the [[Ancients]] were renowned for their advanced [[geneering]].
 
  
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==== Cyborgs ====
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=== Supraclass Roles ===
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A [[Cyborg]] is a [[sophont]] composed of flesh, blood, and machine. There is no easy test of what separates a ''conventional sophont'' and a ''transformed sophont''. Just losing a limb that is replaced with a prosthetic may or may not make a [[cyborg]]. The conventional definition explains that a [[cyborg]] is a [[sophont]] that has combined their body with [[technology]] for non-aesthetic purposes, but that is not how the greater public sees it.
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''Robot''s typically serve the following roles:
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# [[Android]]
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=== Universal Robot Profile ===
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# [[Automaton]]
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The [[Universal Robot Profile]] is the most common system used for classifying robota for observation, repair, and sales. While other systems exist, the URP has become the gold label standard for robot identification and classification.
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# [[Biot]]
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# [[Bot]]
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=== Robotic Morphology ===
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# [[Carer Droid]]
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Robots come in many shapes, forms, and compositions. These outwardly observable characteristics are known as the robot's morphology.
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# [[Combot]]
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# [[Cyborg]]
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==== Sophontiform Morphology ====
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# [[Droid]]
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Sophontiform bots use the bodily shapes of their originating sophont species. [[Human]]s make bots in [[humanoid]] firm. [[Aslan]] make bots that resemble Aslan. The [[K'kree]] make [[centauroid]] robots. Curiously enough, [[Hiver]]s almost never make bots in their own image.
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# [[Engineering Droid]]
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# [[Personal Droid]]
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# [[Repair Droid]]
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# [[Robot]]
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# [[Ship Brain]]
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# [[Ship Mind]]
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# [[Von Neumann Machine]]
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# [[Warbot]]
  
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There are many considerations when making sophontiform bots and one of the most important considerations is to avoid the [[uncanny valley]], a design that resembles the originating [[sophont]] in strange, repulsive, and creepy ways.
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===Examples of [[Robot]]===
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{{Vehicle summary list|Robot}}
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The following kinds of robots very often use sophontiform morphology:
 
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* Personal Servitors
 
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** Counseling Servitors
 
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** Medical Servitors
 
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** Office Servitors
 
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** PA's
 
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** Sexbots
 
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==== Utilitarian Morphology ====
 
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Some robots almost entirely have been designed with just function in mind. These utilitarian bots are designed to be very good at what they do, not to be aesthetically pleasing. Sometimes such bots come in very strange and unsettling forms. Warbots, for instance, often use shapes designed to intimidate, sometimes the shapes of feared predators or the monsters of ancient myth.
 
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These bots are often known to use utilitarian morphologies:
 
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* Impersonal Servitors
 
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** Custodial bots
 
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** Domicile brains
 
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** Room bots
 
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** Ship brains
 
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* Industrial bots
 
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** Manufacturering bots
 
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** Mining bots
 
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* Warbots
 
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==== Environmental Morphology ====
 
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Some robots have been intentionally designed to operate in the exotic [[environment]]s of hostile [[hellworld]]s, [[fluid world]]s, [[vacuum]], Zero-G, or microgravities.
 
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These bots are often known to use Zero-G or other environmental morphologies:
 
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* Hostile Environment Bots
 
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* Space Servitors
 
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* Starship Utility Bots
 
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* Probes
 
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* Zero-G Domestics
 
  
 
== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
 
== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
 
[[Robot]]s are an important part of life in [[Charted Space]]. But they have not yet achieved true [[artificial intelligence]]. Some call the pre-AI intelligence used at cutting edge TL-15 "brilliant" or "lethetic." Modern [[positronic brain]]s, the cornerstone of advanced [[technology]] [[robot]]s, can not yet empower robots to independently make decisions although comprehensive, well thought out programming can give the illusion of independent decision.
 
[[Robot]]s are an important part of life in [[Charted Space]]. But they have not yet achieved true [[artificial intelligence]]. Some call the pre-AI intelligence used at cutting edge TL-15 "brilliant" or "lethetic." Modern [[positronic brain]]s, the cornerstone of advanced [[technology]] [[robot]]s, can not yet empower robots to independently make decisions although comprehensive, well thought out programming can give the illusion of independent decision.
  
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=== Autonomous Operation ===
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=== Robotics Basics ===
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The earliest robots were mechanical marvels and often clockwork contraptions of marvelous complexity, but they possessed very close to zero autonomous capability: they often performed a single task, or a handful of tasks repetitively. With the advent of early electronics, the autonomous capabilities of robots rose. And their housings or bodies became enormously more capable with hydraulics, servos, and more sophisticated micromotors. The [[positronic brain]] was another giant leap forward and vastly expanded autonomous operation.
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Remarks
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| Autonomous Operation
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| '''Robot Autonomy:''' The earliest robots were mechanical marvels and often clockwork contraptions of marvelous complexity, but they possessed very close to zero autonomous capability: they often performed a single task, or a handful of tasks repetitively. With the advent of early electronics, the autonomous capabilities of robots rose. And their housings or bodies became enormously more capable with hydraulics, servos, and more sophisticated micromotors. The [[positronic brain]] was another giant leap forward and vastly expanded autonomous operation.
  
 
However capable and autonomous current cutting edge robots may be, they do not yet posses true [[artificial intelligence]]. A robot not able to eventually consult with a [[sophont]] mind will eventually follow programming leading to fatal mistakes causing its own destruction. Some call this phenomenon "robotic suicide" or "robot endgame." [[Robot]]s cannot currently feel, dream, independently think, or function autonomously in [[jumpspace]] as a [[sophont]] mind can.
 
However capable and autonomous current cutting edge robots may be, they do not yet posses true [[artificial intelligence]]. A robot not able to eventually consult with a [[sophont]] mind will eventually follow programming leading to fatal mistakes causing its own destruction. Some call this phenomenon "robotic suicide" or "robot endgame." [[Robot]]s cannot currently feel, dream, independently think, or function autonomously in [[jumpspace]] as a [[sophont]] mind can.
  
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No combination of advanced robotic and [[FTL]] [[technology]] can yet survive repeated autonomous operation in [[jumpspace]]. Experiments have repeatedly yielded unsatisfactory results. Jump drones launch into [[jumpspace]] just fine. Advanced electronics, computers, and organized pseudobiological  brains function well shipboard on ''crewed'' [[starship]]s, but.... ''Uncrewed'' [[starship]]s or jump drones inconsistently emerge from [[jumpspace]].
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| [[Artificial Intelligence]]
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| No information yet available.
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| Jumpspace & Robotica
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| No known combination of advanced robotic and [[FTL]] [[technology]] can yet survive repeated autonomous operation in [[jumpspace]]. Experiments have repeatedly yielded unsatisfactory results. Jump drones launch into [[jumpspace]] just fine. Advanced electronics, computers, and organized pseudobiological  brains function well shipboard on ''crewed'' [[starship]]s, but.... ''Uncrewed'' [[starship]]s or jump drones inconsistently emerge from [[jumpspace]]. Some have theorized that [[jumpspace]] drives [[brain]]s and [[mind]]s insane.
 
* Many scientists have posited that some component of [[sophontdom]] prevents the catastrophic jump failure of ''uncrewed'' [[starship]]s. Many other theories exist and the [[polity]]-[[government]]s of every [[major race]] are exploring this phenomenon.
 
* Many scientists have posited that some component of [[sophontdom]] prevents the catastrophic jump failure of ''uncrewed'' [[starship]]s. Many other theories exist and the [[polity]]-[[government]]s of every [[major race]] are exploring this phenomenon.
  
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The future of Robota is with highly intelligent, self-aware machines possessing true [[artificial intelligence]]. Robots can already vastly outcalculate humans and other baseline sophonts. When was the last time a [[sophont]] outperformed a hypercomputer in the interstellar chess championships?  
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| Self-Aware Robota
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| The future of Robota is with highly intelligent, self-aware machines possessing true [[artificial intelligence]]. Robots can already vastly outcalculate humans and other baseline sophonts. When was the last time a [[sophont]] outperformed a hypercomputer in the interstellar chess championships?  
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Significant fears of this next step exist. Many fear that self-aware machines will bring about the end of days and [[Singularity]] before its time.
 
  
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=== Artificial Intelligence Determination & Characteristics ===
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Significant fears of this next step exist. Many fear that self-aware machines will bring about the end of days and [[Singularity]] before its time. Some call this the robot revolution.
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Robots can be highly variable in appearance, capability, and characteristic depending on their creator. There are a number of semi-standardized methods of specifying these variable characteristics.  
 
  
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==== Turing Test ====
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: [Once the machine thinking method has started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers.
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| Robots & Gender
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: ... At some stage therefore we should have to expect the machines to take control, in the way that is mentioned in Samuel Butler's ‘Erewhon.’]
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| Robots, not being organically biological [[sophont]]s, do not possess gender in any conventional sense of the term. However many [[sophont]]s still insist upon assigning genderless robots an arbitrary gender nevertheless.
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: - [[Terran]] scientist, Alan Turing in 1951 CE, speaking about a future in which machines outperform [[human]] [[sophont]]s intellectually.
 
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A [[Turing Test]] is a test of artificial intelligence invented by a scientist from the Terran past. Modern versions of it are still in use within the [[Third Imperium]]. The [[Rule of Man]] established the test within [[Charted Space]] even though similar testing mechanisms existed within several [[sophont]] [[culture]]s including the [[Vilani]] [[Ziru Sirka]].
 
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* The [[Turing Test]] is one of the best known tests for determining [[artificial intelligence]] ratings within [[Charted Space]]. It was developed on old [[Terra]] by a cryptological code breaker and mathematician named Alan Turing.
 
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* The Turing Test is essentially one of social interaction. Can a robot convince a conventional sophont that it is a fellow mind through natural conversation or dialogue that flows? Or does it fail, and appear obviously robotic?
 
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* Increasingly sophisticated [[Turing Test]]s have been developed over the millenia. [[AB-101]] broke many records with its amazing sophistication and lifelike behavior. More breakthroughs are expected in the near future.
 
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==== Uncanny Valley ====
 
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The "Uncanny Valley" is a [[robotics]] term representing the feeling of discomfort that many [[sophont]]s feel when a robot body takes on a sophontiform appearance that is too eerily close to their own native [[morphology]]. Some sophont [[societies]] and [[culture]]s are much more comfortable with robots and possess a very small or narrow ''Uncanny Valley''.
 
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==== Robots & Gender ====
 
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Robots, not being organically biological [[sophont]]s, do not possess gender in any conventional sense of the term. However many [[sophont]]s still insist upon assigning genderless robots an arbitrary gender nevertheless.
 
 
* [[Android]] (male)
 
* [[Android]] (male)
 
* [[Gynoid]] (female)
 
* [[Gynoid]] (female)
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=== Continuum of Robotic Sophistication ===
 
=== Continuum of Robotic Sophistication ===
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# Ascendant Machines (advanced avatars)
 
# Ascendant Machines (advanced avatars)
  
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== Worlds & Sectors ([[Astrography]]) ==
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== [[World]]s & [[Sector]]s ([[Astrography]]) ==
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Robots can be found throughout [[Charted Space]].
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Robots can be found throughout [[Charted Space]].  
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Sometimes derelicts or [[Anomaly|strange starships]] emerge from [[Uncharted Space]]... some of them are equipped with bizarre robots with strange computers and thoroughly unfamiliar architectures.
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=== Selected Robot Manufacturers Across Charted Space ===
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This is a selected list of robot manufacturers across [[Charted Space]]:
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! Exemplar Robots
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| [[Blue Dominion]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Chiadle]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Zhodani Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Diversified Dynamics Design & Shipyards]] ([[DDD&S]])
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| [[MI-014 class Mining Robot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Dover-Gabe]]
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| [[Dover-Gabe class Courier Robot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Eksaekfoer]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Vargr Extents]]
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| TBD
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| [[Genem]]
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| [[Total-Integration Process]]
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| [[Independent Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Ibr Ajklia Driachobl]] ([[IAD]])
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Zhodani Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[ICAM Technology]]
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| [[AN-427 class Security Robot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[K!lkoog'x]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[K'kree Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Ling-Standard Products]] ([[LSP]])
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| [[PR-317 class Police Robot]]
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| [[Charted Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Makhidkarun]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Charted Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Naasirka]]
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| [[Shadan class Survey Robot]]
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| [[Charted Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Matsunaga Industries]]
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| [[AD-21 class Urban Combat Robot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Panstellar]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Solomani Sphere]]
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| TBD
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| [[Rossum’s Universal Robots]]
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| [[Marius class Labor Bot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Shinku University Research Directorate]] ([[SURD]])
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| [[AB-101 class Pseudobiological Robot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Six Eyes Nest]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Hiver Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Spinward Specialties]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Star Patterns Trading]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Hiver Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Star Servants]]
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| [[63MEK49 class Ship Service Bot]]
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| [[Hiver Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Tlektaowa]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Aslan Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Tliazhashal]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Zhodani Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Tukera Lines]]
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| [[232-BHR-7 class Toolbot]]
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| [[Imperial Space]]
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| TBD
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| [[Ungzoenogzkha]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Vargr Extents]]
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| TBD
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| [[Walker Robotics]]
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| [[TBD class Robot]]
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| [[Vargr Extents]]
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| TBD
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=== Robot Worlds: 1105 ===
 
=== Robot Worlds: 1105 ===
 
These are a few of the [[system]]s and [[world]]s which are particularly noted for their robots:
 
These are a few of the [[system]]s and [[world]]s which are particularly noted for their robots:
 
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{{:Referral-Tree-C-Cognitive-Technology}}
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{{Referral-Tree-L-Lifeforms}}
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{{Referral-Tree-R-Robots}}
 
== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
 
== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
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{{Wikipedia|Robot}}
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{{Wikipedia|Uncanny_valley}}
 
{{Advanced}}
 
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A Robot is a machine that can perform tasks, or work, autonomously but not necessarily on its own. A robot is a machine servitor.

  • The degree of independence or autonomous operation helps to determine the level of sophistication of the robot.
  • Theoretically robots could one day become self aware and achieve full sophontdom. That is not yet the norm or expectation within Charted Space.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

Robots range from automated arms that weld plates onto spaceships, to androids practically indistinguishable from real people and in many ways superior to them.

  • A robot can be a tool (industrial servitors), a weapon (warbots), an enemy (warbots), a friend (domestic servitors) or sometimes even a lover (sexbots). And sometimes many or all of these roles.
  • It can be the product of mass production, the unique creation of a lifetime of labour or even a potentially self-begotten being, struggling for equal rights in a universe that sees it as a machine and not as a potential lifeform.
  • Robots are often designated by their primary intended function: domestics, industrials, scientifics (often explorers), and warbots. Other designations also exist.

Legality[edit]

While the ban on military robots (see Shudusham Concords) are technically no longer in effect, many worlds in the Imperium still base their local regulations on the Concords. Likewise, the Imperium's own rules on military robots asserts that actions taken by robots fall upon the legal owner.

Word Etymology[edit]

The term is derived from the venerated Slavic languages of old Terra and the root was rabot or rabota meaning "to work, drudge" or "servitude" making robots "performers or servitors of work or labor." As one would expect, androids and mechanical sophonts tend to dislike being confused with nonsapient robots. [1]

Image Repository[edit]

  1. Humanoid robots
    Robots1.jpg
  2. Commercial robots
    Robots2.jpg
  1. Basic size and shape comparison for examples of Humaniti and Android Robot

T5 Sophont Basic Human Robot.jpeg

Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)[edit]

No information yet available.

Supraclass Roles[edit]

Robots typically serve the following roles:

  1. Android
  2. Automaton
  3. Biot
  4. Bot
  5. Carer Droid
  6. Combot
  7. Cyborg
  8. Droid
  9. Engineering Droid
  10. Personal Droid
  11. Repair Droid
  12. Robot
  13. Ship Brain
  14. Ship Mind
  15. Von Neumann Machine
  16. Warbot

Examples of Robot[edit]

29 Robot items[edit]

Item Type Mode TL Mass Cost
232-BHR-7 class Toolbot Industrial Vehicle Ground (Tracked) 12 947kg Cr1,839,130
4-C/D class Automated Interdiction Satellite
63MEK49 class Ship Service Bot Industrial Vehicle Flight (Grav) 15 1086kg Cr2,103,749
AD-21 class Urban Combat Robot Combat Vehicle Flight (Grav) 15 7.84677 tons unloaded, 8.49501 tons full load 4,182,604
AD-26 Argus Combat Vehicle Ground (Legged) 15 26.49385 tons empty, 28.04297 tons loaded 4,284,632
AJ-63 Service Vehicle Ground (Tracked) 12 314kg Cr192,046
AN-427 class Security Robot Security Vehicle Ground (Wheeled) 12 1685 kg Cr1,810,523
Auto-angel Service Vehicle Ground (Legged) 10 1500-1750mm tall Cr1,000,000
Cannisia class Giant Combat Robot Armored Fighting Vehicle Ground (Legged) 10 9 dtons 1.3064475 MCr.
Carer Droid Service Vehicle Ground (Wheeled) 11 3m3 Cr50,000
D9 class Mechanic Robot Industrial Vehicle Ground (Wheeled) 12 458kg Cr1,799,563
Dover-Gabe class Courier Robot
EGOR Service Vehicle Flight (Grav) 15 410 kg MCr0.93
Engineering Droid Industrial Vehicle Ground (Legged) 11 1,250-1,750mm tall Cr350,000
Extra Eye Microdrone Survey Vehicle Flight (Grav) 15 1.62kg cr19,835
GP(R)-19 class Transport Robot Cargo Vehicle Ground (Wheeled) 9 7.65m3 (0.57 dTons) Cr50,000
H-9 class Heavy Combat Robot Armored Fighting Vehicle Ground (Tracked) 15 3,945kg Cr2,641,573
Infodrone class Expert Robot Service Vehicle Ground (Legged) 10 1 L 20 KCr
MI-014 class Mining Robot Industrial Vehicle TBD TBD TBD TBD
Marius class Labor Bot Service Vehicle TBD TBD TBD TBD
Mark V class Death Machine Main Battle Tank Flight (Grav) 15 11.6 dton 23,081,103
PR-317 class Police Robot Security Vehicle Flight (Grav) 12 1000kg Cr1,861,445
Personal Droid
Rapid Deployment Aeroshell Cargo Vehicle Flight (Grav) 14 Over 40dTons Classified
Sabmiqys
Scylla Drainage Control Robot Industrial Vehicle Ground (Legged) 15 97.62 tons Mcr6.99
Shadan class Survey Robot Survey Vehicle Ground (Wheeled) 12 1390kg kCr410
Sylean Type 1 class Security Robot Security Vehicle Ground (Tracked) 10 50.0 liters Cr 20,000
Vulcan class Factory Robot Industrial Vehicle Ground (Legged) 12 0.63245 tons unloaded, 0.79845 tons loaded 526,808

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

Robots are an important part of life in Charted Space. But they have not yet achieved true artificial intelligence. Some call the pre-AI intelligence used at cutting edge TL-15 "brilliant" or "lethetic." Modern positronic brains, the cornerstone of advanced technology robots, can not yet empower robots to independently make decisions although comprehensive, well thought out programming can give the illusion of independent decision.

Robotics Basics[edit]

Robotics Basics
Topic Remarks
Autonomous Operation Robot Autonomy: The earliest robots were mechanical marvels and often clockwork contraptions of marvelous complexity, but they possessed very close to zero autonomous capability: they often performed a single task, or a handful of tasks repetitively. With the advent of early electronics, the autonomous capabilities of robots rose. And their housings or bodies became enormously more capable with hydraulics, servos, and more sophisticated micromotors. The positronic brain was another giant leap forward and vastly expanded autonomous operation.

However capable and autonomous current cutting edge robots may be, they do not yet posses true artificial intelligence. A robot not able to eventually consult with a sophont mind will eventually follow programming leading to fatal mistakes causing its own destruction. Some call this phenomenon "robotic suicide" or "robot endgame." Robots cannot currently feel, dream, independently think, or function autonomously in jumpspace as a sophont mind can.

Artificial Intelligence No information yet available.
Jumpspace & Robotica No known combination of advanced robotic and FTL technology can yet survive repeated autonomous operation in jumpspace. Experiments have repeatedly yielded unsatisfactory results. Jump drones launch into jumpspace just fine. Advanced electronics, computers, and organized pseudobiological brains function well shipboard on crewed starships, but.... Uncrewed starships or jump drones inconsistently emerge from jumpspace. Some have theorized that jumpspace drives brains and minds insane.
Self-Aware Robota The future of Robota is with highly intelligent, self-aware machines possessing true artificial intelligence. Robots can already vastly outcalculate humans and other baseline sophonts. When was the last time a sophont outperformed a hypercomputer in the interstellar chess championships?

Significant fears of this next step exist. Many fear that self-aware machines will bring about the end of days and Singularity before its time. Some call this the robot revolution.

Robots & Gender Robots, not being organically biological sophonts, do not possess gender in any conventional sense of the term. However many sophonts still insist upon assigning genderless robots an arbitrary gender nevertheless.
Uncanny Valley No information yet available.

Continuum of Robotic Sophistication[edit]

  1. Calculating Machines (automata and early robots, computers,and supercomputers)
  2. Thinking Machines (bright machines aka hypercomputers, bright nanocytes, etc.)
  3. Feeling Machines (true artificial intelligence aka brilliant machines)
  4. Transcendent Machines (early avatars)
  5. Ascendant Machines (advanced avatars)

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)[edit]

Robots can be found throughout Charted Space.

Sometimes derelicts or strange starships emerge from Uncharted Space... some of them are equipped with bizarre robots with strange computers and thoroughly unfamiliar architectures.

Selected Robot Manufacturers Across Charted Space[edit]

This is a selected list of robot manufacturers across Charted Space:

Selected Robot Manufacturers Across Charted Space
Corporation Exemplar Robots Location/s Remarks
Blue Dominion TBD class Robot Imperial Space TBD
Chiadle TBD class Robot Zhodani Space TBD
Diversified Dynamics Design & Shipyards (DDD&S) MI-014 class Mining Robot Imperial Space TBD
Dover-Gabe Dover-Gabe class Courier Robot Imperial Space TBD
Eksaekfoer TBD class Robot Vargr Extents TBD
Genem Total-Integration Process Independent Space TBD
Ibr Ajklia Driachobl (IAD) TBD class Robot Zhodani Space TBD
ICAM Technology AN-427 class Security Robot Imperial Space TBD
K!lkoog'x TBD class Robot K'kree Space TBD
Ling-Standard Products (LSP) PR-317 class Police Robot Charted Space TBD
Makhidkarun TBD class Robot Charted Space TBD
Naasirka Shadan class Survey Robot Charted Space TBD
Matsunaga Industries AD-21 class Urban Combat Robot Imperial Space TBD
Panstellar TBD class Robot Solomani Sphere TBD
Rossum’s Universal Robots Marius class Labor Bot Imperial Space TBD
Shinku University Research Directorate (SURD) AB-101 class Pseudobiological Robot Imperial Space TBD
Six Eyes Nest TBD class Robot Hiver Space TBD
Spinward Specialties TBD class Robot Imperial Space TBD
Star Patterns Trading TBD class Robot Hiver Space TBD
Star Servants 63MEK49 class Ship Service Bot Hiver Space TBD
Tlektaowa TBD class Robot Aslan Space TBD
Tliazhashal TBD class Robot Zhodani Space TBD
Tukera Lines 232-BHR-7 class Toolbot Imperial Space TBD
Ungzoenogzkha TBD class Robot Vargr Extents TBD
Walker Robotics TBD class Robot Vargr Extents TBD

Robot Worlds: 1105[edit]

These are a few of the systems and worlds which are particularly noted for their robots:

16 of 16 World articles in Robot
Adrablsish  •  Aerfor  •  Aiish  •  Antra  •  Belt-9  •  Dzoungdzi  •  Eraki  •  Maelstrom (De 2522)  •  Naeadh  •  Promise  •  Raziira  •  Sabmiqys  •  Stern-Stern  •  Tech-World  •   Weipu   •  Ye-Lu  •  
startbacknext(16 listed)

See also[edit]

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