RobCo’s always had an eye for robotics, and this little fellow is no different!
— Museum sign at the REPCONN headquarters
Eyebots are aerial spherical robots, slightly larger than the human head, with a loudspeaker and electrical zapper on the front and several long antennas protruding from its top and back. Throughout Collegetown, several repurposed Eyebots recovered from the streets and refurbished can be found roaming around their respective streets. Occasionally sputtering out music for whatever radio station they happen to be tuned into at the time, they provide the streets with ambience.
During times of Emergency, All Eyebots stop playing music and will be put on a standby mode as Radio Transmissions or Emergency Broadcasts are echoed through their speakers. Unlike its Mojave counterparts and even some of the Boston Variations, these version of Eyebots seem to have much more emotion and seem to even developed feelings and learned behavior.
One Eyebot named Clicker seems to support this theory. Clicker has often been observed occasionally ramming into the antlers of male Radstag or “butting heads” with females, often for minutes at a time during his patrols around the garden. While at first people feared this as faulty programing or aggressiveness on Clickers part, it was soon determined that Clicker was actually engaging in Play Behavior with the mutated deer, as he often vocalized what could only be described by technicians who were brought out to investigate, as “Joy” or “Happy” noises when he would finally disengage from the deer and return to work. It it unclear where exactly this behavior came from as it was not pre-programed into him.
One theory which has since become common ground, suggests Learned Behavior, where Clicker would often observe the Ragstag during his patrols at certain moments and “Copy” the behavior he observed accordingly. When the Deer did not react aggressively to Clickers advances, Clicker would then repeat the behavior until it was satisfied or the Deer stopped engaging with it. Since this discovery, many people find enjoyment in watching the interactions between the robot and the animals, often expressing joy in the “Adorable Reactions” and odd friendship established between the odd pairing, as it would also seem that Radstag will come up to Clicker to engage in play, often chasing the Eyebot or bumping heads with it.