a) is your favorite color purple because every enby I know has purple as their favorite color and I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy
b) what is this I hear of robots in the moth burns please tell me about them
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A) purple used to be my favorite color. I used to be such a purple fanatic I would only wear purple clothes. Now my favorite color is a dark olive green :) kinda directly opposite the color wheel lol
B) Hokay, so, robots in The Moth Burns (TMB) are like a lil more advanced than the robots we have today*. The most relevant robotics company, Kelgerin Robotics, makes and sells robots for a wide variety of purposes such as companionship, labor, and combat (though that one's a lil more under the table). In TMB digitally uploaded organic** brains are possible, but is rather recent and not guaranteed to work.
**I use "organic" in TMB to mean like, not-artificial, natural, made by good ol evolution and birth, etc. since the technology to make a robot with flesh and blood does exist (not easy but is there)
The models for robots are categorized by general form (humanoid is class A, robots that are to resemble animals*** are class B, robots capable of fuel-propelled flight iirc are class D) then the following number says what specific type of model in that class it is, the exception to this is class A, where from .00-.99 it's a scale of "not at all could be confused as a real person" to "is basically picture perfect". The examples for this would be A.22, A.95, and TMB Part 2 Lueja :
***Not to be confused with the combat robots that are given Earth animal names.
(good lord that A.22 art is old)
A.22 is a companion robot, A.95 is a custom combat robot, Lueja's body was built to be exactly what she looked like organically; A.22 has an artificial personality installed, A.95 is capable of storing an organic brain, Lueja got her brain uploaded. A.22 is pretty humanoid but very much robotic looking, A.95 could disguise themself well (and a different model would look different), and Lueja is meant to be as realistic as possible.
But then there's the combat robots Kelgerin Robotics keeps hush-hush. I only have two good pieces of art of robots like these so here's Fox and Firebird:
Both Fox and Firebird have artificial personalities, they could be argued as AI but any sort of humanity they seem to have is all code and programming, they are 1's and 0's and log lines internally because I really hate it when AI characters are humanized in media THEY ARE CODE THEY ARE PROGRAMMING; ANYTHING THEY SAY THEY'RE PROGRAMMED TO DO; THEY DON'T THIIIIIIINK- uh anyways ^^ Fox, Firebird, and a few others (Wolf and Eagle, to name two), are relics from the first making of TMB and they're stuck with their Earth animal theming even though Earth foxes do not exist on the planet TMB is set on. I blame my 9 year old self for not being enlightened enough to make more based character choices.
These guys do not have a specific class and number because they're not intended to be seen by the public. Robots like these are intended to be kept as assets for Kelgerin Robotics or to be quietly rented out. One would use robots like Fox or Firebird if they want to murder whistleblowers, assassinate rivals, keep test subjects from escaping, keep Mordi Kelgerin in line, spying & acquiring information on rivals, etc.
DO KELGERIN ROBOTICS SPY ON THEIR NORMAL CIVILIAN CUSTOMERS: no, and the ones sold to the masses are three laws of robotics compliant. But models from other robotics companies? Maybe not so "safe".
And I think that's all I can remember for what's going on with the robots of TMB ^^' I love them very much and thanks for the ask !
*I say little but that's kinda just the electronic side, there's materials that are much more advanced that come into play with the magic system of TMB's planet. And ofc the data storage to be able to translate an organic brain into imperfect tech