Autos

Many types of robots or automatons exist. Generally server automatons that are simply thought of as machines are called "automats". Sapient automatons, or automatss with consciousness, are referred to as "voltaics" or "semblants" (they have a semblance of humanity). 
or "mechanisms" (mechanical organisms), or more formally "mechona" (mechanical Aeoner), ferrona (ferrous ona), electrona. or just "synthetics" 
== AI ==
Non-sapient AI: "AI"
Non-sapient but with convincing personality interface: "Facade" (or "Persona" / "Intellect" / "Artifice") 
Sapient AI: "Volition" 
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Most ships have a AI or Facade that does most of the piloting. 
Originally, the term "cognition" simply referred to a conscious super-intelligent AI but now refers to a specific set of AI "The Cognitions" that once governed Chiliad. 
Now the general term for a conscious AI is "Volition". 
== Bots / Autos ==
"Bot" is the general term for any kind of robot. 
"Tasker" (or taskerbot, Compact, unit, utility, drone, module...) is the common term for specialized bots that are generally designed for a specific purpose. 
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"Scurrier" is the term for smaller, non-humanoid, often wheeled, taskers. 
* Ringspiders, sculttlers: Multi-legged interior habitat maintenance
* Ringmender, shipmender, Rectifyer/Recty: Maintenance and repairs
* Hullcrawler: exterior cylinder maintenance
* Glass Scorpions: window cleaner bots
"Auto" or "automat" is the general term for a humanoid robot (short for "automaton") but generally refers to non-sapient service machines. Or semblant 
=== Servants and law enforcement ===
* Votives, Service autos given to citizens of Chiliad by the Cognitions.
* Orderlies, law enforcement of Chiliad.
* Compellers/Compulsors/Compulsors , law enforcement of Ostrova? Hullgrave?
=== Manufacturers ===
Syntaxic Engineering: Chiliad-based company. Primarily make scurriers.
File:Companies Syntax.png
File:Coefficient 140 b.png|Coefficient NM
File:Coefficient 150 b.png|Coefficient LS
File:Hullcrawler 1.png|Quadratic 140B (Hullcralwer)
File:Exponent 1.png|Integral 5C Micro (Shipmender)
File:Exponent 3b.png|Integral 31R (Shipmender)
File:Canassist2.png|Canassist Exponent 9N (Ringmender)
File:Canassist duo use.png|Canassist Denominator 26
File:Modulus 1.png|Modulus T19
* Canassist Exponent 30
* Coefficient NM 140, Coefficient L 150
* Modulus Binomial
* Ballbot 3
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* monitor bugs / maintainer beetle
* Hull crawler / hull walker / hull medic / ring walker
* Asynchron, Enzon, Cypher, vector, factor/factorial
Sentient Steel: Earth-based company. Minimal automats
File:Companies Sentient Steel.png
File:Squire 1.png|Squire M3
File:Vicari.png|Viscount L200
File:Elite 1.png|Envoy Elite
* Squire (personal assistance)
* Viscount (customer service/Attendant)
* Envoy (Security) ,
* Commandant (Heavy labor) , marquis, 
Ancilor Automata: Chiliad company. Complex automats. 
* Underling (assistant)
* Orderlies (law enforcement)
* Cottar, Envoy, Adjuvant, Auxillary, Subordinate, Retinue, consiglier, consig, confidant, marauder, zealot
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Zelenlos: Elitran or Ostrovan. Geometric automats 
* Diskus (Security?)
* Beschuzen (Security) (Void Piercer auto)
* (mechanic)
* Volstrecker (Enforcer)
* Gravitas, savant, Async, 
* Sedulous, assiduous
* rigor, vigor, meticulous, punctilious
Ueka: Hullgrave company. probably just components 
Servonics: Ancient manufacturer that created the Cognitions.
== Voltaics ==
Sapient automatons, or autos with consciousness, are referred to as "voltaics" or "semblants" (as they have a semblance of humanity). (or just "synthetics/synths") 
Types of Voltaics include:
* The Hollows of Hullgrave (which can be further categorized into Emergents, Echos, and Unities).
* The Exactors, specialized operatives of the Omniscials, more autonomous than the preceptors 
=== Hollows ===
Hullgrave is home to a unique race of semblants called "hollows". Types of hollows include:
* Emergents
* Echos, and
* Unities
== Legendary Voltaics ==
=== The Emanations ===
The Luminaries created super advanced artificial beings called Liasons, or The Emanations, to act on their behalf.
=== The Cognitions ===
Originally, the term "cognition" simply referred to a conscious super-intelligent AI but now refers to a specific set of AI "The Cognitions" that once governed Chiliad.
(Or use "Volition" instead. if Cognition is the common term for conscious AI) 
Other Cognition related terms
* Visages, The many physical "automat" manifestations of the Cognitions (since they were not limited to one physical housing as most voltaics are.)
* Servonics, The set of Cognitions that governed Chiliad through their golden age
* Caretakers, the new Cognitions created after the fall of the Omniscials.
* Volition? alt name for cogs, newer cogs?
== Remotes ==
Some humans use psychotronics to remotely pilot a robot. these people are called "operators" and their automats are called "remotes". sometimes it is for temporary tasks and for some it is a permanent lifestyle. Humans can only pilot 1-2 remotes at a time and can't do much with the operator body at the same time. One reason why memski and alamazi shtal remove or hide their skin is to make it harder to determine whether or not they are truly present or using a remote, making it harder for the paranoid to be killed. 
"Proxies" are those who use remotes as a permanent lifestyle. They keep their bodies in a life support chamber, are unaware of their physical surroundings, and can only experience the world via their remotes. Because of the sophisticated psychotronic tech, their senses and experiences through their machine bodies are just as vivid as any shtal's. Many chose this life because they feel it is safer. If their remote gets in an accident, they simply buy a new remote. But some are genetically designed live life in a virtual world and can only visit the real world through proxies.
A limitation of proxy tech is the communicating remotely. within the aggregate the time lag is not enough to be a concern but going to another aggregate millions of miles away, the lag would be too much to be useful. The other time this is a concern is if the proxy goes into a structure which blocks signals. The sci-fi signal can maybe go through most cylinders and ships but if a structure is designed as a scifi faraday cage, then the operator will not be able to communicate with the remote. But some remotes/proxies are equiped with an AI/fascade that understands the operator's desires etc and can act on their behalf and automatically continues the tasks as needed when the connection is blocked. 
Definitions:
* Remote: the general concept of mentally piloting an automat through psychtronics. also the type of automat used for this purpose.
* Operator: the human piloting
* Proxy: A person who lives life as a permanent remote operator. Their bodies remain in a secure chamber that keeps them healthy. Proxy also refers to the type of automat used.
* Or "remote/proxy" is the bot, "remoter/proxier" is the person? 
Proxy groups:
* The Dreamwalkers: a group of religious zealot Proxies from Ostrova
* Comashtal, Shtal from The Necropolis/Catacombs, a region of Ostrova where the majority of residents are Proxies who live in a shared "dreamspace" (virtual reality) called Idyllicia, but visit "hardspace" via proxies.
Proxy/Droners/avatars/controllers/remotes/dreamers/dreamwalkers. Comashtal/ Necroshtal,
== Nanites ==
Nanos: Nanobot Electronic maintenance. Doubles as currency. Precious. (more ubiquitous currency is digits)
Inexorable immortality nanites
Luminary Suthic nanites
== .. ==
== wip notes ==
Luminary drones: Proxy, Emissary, vicarial 
Samsarans: Semblants, Echos, Cognitions, Spectrals, Alloy, Voltaic, Emergents, apparitions, hollow 
Servonics: Admin/adminsters, controllers, Proxy, Server, Processors, Cognitions, Aspects, manifestations, avatars, benefactors, interfaces, axons, Emergences, Caretakers 
Chilliad enforcers: Enactors, Orderlies, votive 
(Surrogates): droner, avatar, controller, proxy, Dreamer
Omniscial Soldiers: Preceptor, Exactor, exhorter, compeller, inexorable, compulsitor
autos that look just like human? - Semblants?
AI: Virtual, apparition, specter, interface, axon, intel/intelligence/intellect, artifice, wight, eidolon, volition 
"Axon"? cog (if servonics are volitions)? entity, virtual, engram, psyche, Simulacrum, V-psyche, V-entity, V-soul, 
MFG: Galvanics, Ingot, Chisel, Oro, Bulol 
Seelenlos /Soulless german / Zelenlos
Hueca / hollow / Ueka
VK PQ GD
=== Asimov ===
RB, Robbie
Spd 13 - Sunlight, runner
Qt1 - station, religious, master
DV5 - miner,
NS2, Nestor 10 - Lost, Hyperatomic drive, Etheric physicist, altered first law
Susan Calvin, Alfred Lanning, Gregory Powell, Michael Donovan, Gerald Black, Bogart