One of the bots designed by a company named Harness TECH to replicate more successful models, the Protolepus was built for endurance and speed. To travel long distances. However, it lacked the polish and understanding found in those of which it was made to copy.
Few Protolepus were made but those that were made either broke down or left Harness TECH when the laboratory was over taken by the bots inside.
This Protolepus, known as Haas, has been doing work where he can as an explorer, which is also his hobby/passtime of choice. Always great to make a job something you love.
With his arms that split in twaine, climbing has never been easier. (This is not true)
This is my Fusionsprunt oc !! Fusionsprunt is an original story by @skeletoninthemelonland, please go check their stuff for their stuff and for links to their Fusionsprunt account.
So how do you produce electricity with living plants? Simply by using the natural processes that already occur. In short: the plant produces organic matter via photosynthesis. Only part of this organic matter is then used for its own growth. The rest is excreted via the roots. Around the roots, bacteria feed on the organic matter and they release electrons. If you’re able to harvest the electrons into an electrode, you can couple the first electrode to a counter-electrode and build an electrical circuit, like in a battery. The electrons flow back into the natural system via the counter-electrode, so it’s completely circular. Because we use the natural processes around the plant, nature is not harmed. It works day and night, summer and winter. It only stops when the plant and its surroundings completely dry up or freeze over.
Sedum Oviferum
Sedum pachyphyllum is a ground-hugging succulent that spreads by rooting fallen stems and leaves. The succulent also goes by the names “Cerise Moonstones” or “Mauve Pebbles”. The short and stumpy round leaves have a light silvery-purple color; positioned at a right angles to the stem and curve upward, which in the wintertime, the tips of said leaves will turn into a notorious red.
Sedum Oviferum is a succulent that is very easy to grow and maintain. It is a resilient plant that can tolerate drought, moist and dry soils, and when given adequate exposure to sunlight and sufficient water, Cerise Moonstones will thrive outdoors. The Sedum Oviferum succulent grows at its best with regular exposure to sunlight. If Mauve Pebbles are planted in an area in a garden that gets plenty of sunlight per day, you will be rewarded with bright coloured leaves and flowers. In winter and early spring, Cerise Moonstones actively grow and produce blooms featuring red-orange petals and sepals that have the same pigmentation as the leaves. The flowers produced by Cerise Moonstones have a bell shape and a sugary fragrance.
Subterranean Clover
Trifolium subterraneum is also known as the subterranean clover (often shortened to sub clover), or subterranean trefoil. The plant's name comes from its underground seed development, a characteristic not possessed by other clovers. It can thrive in poor-quality soil where other clovers cannot survive.
This species is self-fertilizing, unlike most legume forage crops such as alfalfa and other clovers, which are pollinated by insects, especially honeybees. It is also grown in places where the extreme ranges of soil type and quality, rainfall, and temperature make the variable tolerances of sub clover especially useful.
Functionality
GR96 are powered by any plant of choosing on their back pod (the one we are going to discuss has a giant Sedum Oviferum and multiple sub clovers to operate) which is held in place by five strong suction cups. They’re manufactured for community gardens (strictly only one per garden), but they can also be bought by high class citizens for private properties, though at a way bigger cost since they’re financed by the city.
They can use their hands as scissors, shovels, and for watering (hence the big forearms, for storing the water), the latter which they do by dipping their hands in a bucket, opening the valve on their forearms so they can fill them up and releasing the water from the pinholes on their palms. Their “eyes” are actually a screen that can show plenty expressions, but the two circles above that peripheral screen are the real environmental sensors. They also have the same sensors on their ankles for inspecting the lower plants and ground without the need of kneeling, and their feet are shaped in a way so that weight is evenly distributed, lowering the chances of damaging a plant if they were to step on it. The ear like protrusions are small solar panels, used as backup energy (they don’t have any communication properties). Their speaker aka their “voice” is the mohawk-like structure on the top (which also has their series barcode 128 on the lower back), but when they speak there are these strips at the sides of the face mask that light up with the volume. The mask (non removable) has a set of pipes that are used for analyzing the air quality and humidity of the area surrounding them.
Made this little robot fella, got inspired to do so because of @skeletoninthemelonland's Fusionsprunt project, I kind of see this guy as an fan character for that (for some reason Im thinking OC might come off wrong) despite the definite difference in aesthetics.
Basically these robots were designed due to a manpower shortage in some city that had been ravaged by combat, and those still around were left to figure out how to pick up the pieces without any manpower (With a lot of it dead or out fighting).
So a group of engineers and scientists kept out of the military draft by the city's government came up with this simple robot that would act as disaster response and relief for the city, and it was decided to name them Civil Assistance Automata (Despite the fact that they don't really count as Automata, that was added because it "Sounded sophisticated")
These robots are made somewhat crudely, made mostly out of bronze taken from melted shell casings, a lot of their cheap construction was done to save resources to focus them into the machine's mind, which was made to act in a human way.
The intention was that it would be able to properly assist humans if it thought like one, being able to understand dazed or panicked citizens better than if it had been outfitted with some simpler system.
To try and counteract the effects of providing these machines with a humanoid AI, they weren't given an appearance similar to humans to try and prevent people from getting attached to these robots, as they would frequently wind up horrifically damaged, and it was assumed that a more humanoid design in conjunction with a humanoid AI would inflict lasting psychological damage on humans who witnessed it.
These robots are powered by a steam engine fed by wood or other flammable materials, the robots consume this in a way similar to how a human would consume food, with the flammable material traveling from the mouth of the robot to a furnace which would burn it to fuel the steam engine.
They are often seen eating debris while repairing roadways or fixing communication lines. Smoke from the furnace is expelled through the mouth or through a hole in the face of the robot, made to vaguely resemble a nose.
Hopefully anyone reading this survived those text walls, I kind of imagine these guys swarming like ants if one of them spotted a plank of wood
I really should finish up one of these but at the moment Im not feeling up to it (Nearly 2 AM)
I was not expecting to wake up to the actual Starbles reblogging my little robot thing, that is really cool honestly. I've definitely got to refine some of the details (I was meant to make an edit to that post that got reblogged with updated stuff, might still do that.)
So heres a look at the further worked on version of that little robot fella
I am wondering if it would be a better idea to make a new post, similar style to that old one but with better info, or just edit that one? I'm leaning more on editing personally.
