Robots

**Robots (Homo-Labori)** also referred as M**achines**, or even Artificial Intelligence (**AI**), are mechanical, usually manmade, creatures programmed to carry out a series of complex actions automatically, robots come in many variations and may be programed by a computer to do various different tasks, all to the benefit of their creators, Humans. Robots over time may develop patterns of intelligence through experience and teaching themselves aspects of the world, this can eventually cause the robot to become sapient. Robots serve as the one of the core species in the series, the main type of robot produced, Worker Robots, are critically important to the story of the show.

Drones count as part of the robot species, including all their subtypes. Bionics do not count however.

## Characteristics

Robots come in many types and variations, though mainly, robots are split into three categories; Worker Robots, Programs/AI, and Drones. Some may have unique attachments and abilities depending on their given task. Collectively, robots will often follow the common rules and looks of robotics, they contain mainly mechanical parts focused on the movement of the robot, and very little is left for the additional organs or other functions. All robots require power to function and will need to charge, similar to humans sleeping. Robots will often have visors with two eyes that can be colored in every color except yellow. Yellow eyes in robots symbolizes high importance and qualities recognized by humans, these robots will often be given greater freedoms compared to regular robots. Robots usually will be shorter than humans to make them less intimating and easier to control, though on occasion some robots will be made taller than a human due to need, such as a bulldozer robot, made for demolition.

Robots, in their most basic sense, is machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer, and all elements of it are made in tandem with this, there is some intrinsic purpose given to every part, while pain in robots may feel like an unreasonable thing to add, it may be necessary to help reduce accidents, and know if a robot needs repair or not. Through the use of pain-inhibitors, pain is greatly reduced and added, for example: a gunshot wound, to humans, would be completely unbearable, in robots however: it may feel more like being punched in the gut, while the two may feel the same, the alternative is a lot more tolerable, and minor pains may not even be felt by them. Robots are capable of feeling, and basic emotions that are provided, though the majority of this is programmed in, and not their own free will. Though through experience and enough time, robots may teach themselves more about the world and themselves, this can develop into full-scale intelligence and sapience. Its unknown where the robots consciousness begins and its programming ends, though what can be said is that the process for developing intelligence is extremely slow.

Intelligence will develop in a robot after around 5 years of interactions and experience, very similarly to a human infant, and this system of intelligence is very similar to humans in general. And it will take them around 15 to 20 years to fully develop intelligence comparable to a human, after this, robots could potentially continue developing to the point of a super-intelligence, however their limited storage and memory capacity would stop them from out growing humans in potential knowledge. Though if a robot were to transfer itself into a computer or program that had the necessary computing power, the robot could turn themselves into a artificial super intelligence; such as the case of Rheostat.

Robots are built in mans likeness, and like their creators have various systems and behaviors, in various elements of the machine, such as its memory, Central processing unit, et cetera, are placed around the body in different placed parts of the body, the hard drive for example is placed where the heart would be, some comically compare the two, including robots themselves. Robots are preprogramed to be incredibly work efficient and work focused, and in robot society, your job determines not only your role in society but your social status and worth, and this preprogrammed action is partially what helps robots thrive compared to humans on Eden. Robots, while they do require breaks, can work longer and more than any regular human could, which is why they were far more suited to the jobs they were built to do, and why they widely replaced human working jobs in the late 23rd Century.

## Background

Robot production began somewhere in the 21th Century (most likely the early 2000's) in small scale production lines, they were usually only used sparingly and for high importance jobs, such as security and so on. Robots looked less humanoid in the 23rd century, resembling more like boxes with wheels, quoted by one anonymous person. Robots came with the surge of technology along side humans exodus from Earth, developments in artificial intelligence (AI), nanotechnology, advancements in the field of science and medicine, and the invention of the Tachyon. Robot production would continue to be forwarded by the growing General Robotics,