Robot

### Level 6 Buff

 Increase the beam width of optoelectronic weapons and grant immunity to electro-charged damage

## Skills

 Electric Overload
 Drone Swarm

 EMP

The  **Robot** is a playable character once assembled. It is a mechanized humanoid with big yellow eyes, a big red jaw and an antenna at the back. It also possesses some kind of Tesla coil linked to its back, which is only visible while its first skill is active.

Once assembled, it can also be encountered during a run as an NPC. Upon interaction, it will give the player a non-boss special drop random seed of up to Orange/Epic rarity.

## How to Unlock

Initially, this character can be found as the Damaged Robot in the Workshop. By interacting with it using the Engineer, a prompt will come up asking for 20 Parts and 20 Batteries to fix it. When fixed, the Robot will say "Hello World!". Afterwards, it will show up on the Living Room and can be used like any other character. Electric Sheep Shawn is unlocked along with Robot.

If the player doesn't want to purchase the Engineer, a Free Trial Voucher can be used to play as the Engineer and unlock the Robot.

Each upgrade changes the stats slightly.

1. +1 HP - cost: 500 gems
2. +1 Armor - cost: 1,000 gems
3. +20 Energy - cost: 1,500 gems
4. -2s Skill Cooldown - cost: 2,000 gems
5. Skill Upgrade - cost: 2,500 gems
6. "Increase the beam width of laser weapons" buff - cost: 5,000 gems
7. Enhance Starting Weapon - cost: 8,000 gems

## Statistics

The Robot has a below-average of 3 (4) HP along with the energy pool of 180 (200). However, it has the second highest Armor stat after Paladin, which makes up for its health. It also shares the 0 critical chance and low melee damage with the Wizard and Priest.

## Alternate Skins

The Robot currently has 17 alternate skins, which include:

* 7 gem skins
* 2 paid skins
* 1 achievement skin
* 2 fragment skins
* 4 fish chip skins
* 1 season coin skin

## Electric Overload

### Basic:

*Electric shock nearby enemies continuously. Starts with 2 targets.*

### Mentor Upgrade:

**Increase damage. Chance to stun enemies.**

### Cooldown:

11 (9) seconds.

Basics
*Electric shock nearby enemies continuously. Starts with 2 targets.*
* It takes 0.5 seconds to bring out a Tesla coil above its head. Then, the coil will start to emit electric beams and zap two nearby enemies, dealing an initial 2 damage, then 1 damage every 0.14 seconds, for another 3.5 seconds.
	+ This skill automatically shifts its targets to the nearest enemies.
	+ The electric beams can only target enemies within its line of sight, and cannot target enemies hiding behind walls or breakable crates.
		- The "line of sight" uses the head of the coil as a reference, not the Robot itself.
		- The head of the coil can damage crates on contact.
	+ Shotgun Buff allows 1 more beam to be fired.
	+ Bounce Buff allows the beams to bounce to another enemy.
	+ Laser Buff increases the damage by 1.
	+ Fire Rate Buff allows the beams to deal damage faster.
* The Robot's movement speed is reduced by -1 throughout the duration of the skill.
* Due to the positioning of the coil, it is possible to hide behind a block and poke the coil above it, zapping enemies on the other side.
* If the Robot is affected by the Freeze status effect, it will still continue to damage enemies.
* This skill has an 11 (9) seconds cooldown.

Skill Upgrade
*Electric shock targets +2.*
* The Robot now fires two additional electric beams, for a maximum of 4 (5 with Shotgun buff).

Mentor Upgrade
*Increase damage. Chance to stun enemies.*
* Each tick deals 1 more damage and has 30% chance to stun enemies.

## Drone Swarm

### Basic:

*Summon a swarm of drones to attack enemies nearby. Starts with 4 drones.*

### Cooldown:

13 (11) seconds.

How to unlock
Pay $1.99 to unlock this skill.
Basics
*Summon a swarm of drones to attack enemies nearby. Starts with 4 drones.*
* Spawns 4 drones  that will seek and damage enemies inside a 15 tiles radius area from Robot.
	+ The drones last for 9 seconds. After that, they will retreat to the Robot.
	+ These drones are invulnerable against hostile sources.
	+ There are 2 types of drones, both will attack every 2 seconds after locking on target.
		- 2 drones that shoot a laser beam, dealing 2 damage, this attack can piece through enemies and has 10% chance to crit.
		- 2 drones that shoot 3 bullets, dealing 3 damage each bullet. These bullets have 0% chance to crit.
* This skill has a 13 (11) seconds cooldown, and it starts after the drones have reached their time limit and started to retreat.
* Drone Swarm can be further enhanced when paired with the following Buffs:
	+ - Increases the laser beams width and increases the damage by 1.
	+ - The bullet drones shoot 5 bullets instead of 3.
	+ - Affects both laser and bullet drones.

Skill Upgrade
*The number of drones +2.*
* Summons one more set of laser drones and bullet drones. Stacks with mentor upgrade.

Mentor Upgrade
*Increase the number of drones.*
* Adds one more drone of each kind, one laser drone and one bullet drone.

## EMP

### Basic:

*Emit EMP to interrupt the surrounding area, inflicting damage and stun, while destroying bullets in the area. 10 bolts in total, each deals damage separately.*

### Mentor Upgrade:

**Skill's crit hit rate is increased to 100%.**

### Cooldown:

4 (2) seconds.

How to unlock
Use 8,000 gems to unlock this skill.
Basic
*Emit EMP to interrupt the surrounding area, inflicting damage and stun, while destroying bullets in the area. 10 bolts in total, each deals damage separately.*
* Emits 10 laser beams, evenly spread around Robot that deal 4 damage each and last 0.5 seconds.
* The beams can destroy enemies' bullets, or reflect them with Reflect Buff.
* The beams have a critical hit chance of 50%, or 100% with Mentor's upgrade outside of The Origin.
	+ The beams apply Stun on critical hits.
	+ With Elemental Staff Buff,allows them to deal double damage on critical hits.
* This skill has a cooldown of 4 (2) seconds.

Skill upgrade
*Interruption area increases.*
* The circle of electricity‘s range will increase.
	+ Stacks with Laser Buff.

Mentor Upgrade
*Skill's crit hit rate is increased to 100%.*
* The skill will always deal critical hits, causing enemies to always be stunned when struck with this skill.

## Quotes

### Interaction in the Living Room

* *"Do you need a power bank?"*
* *"Me, Robot."*
* *"I dream of an Electric Sheep all the time. So I asked Engineer to design one for me."*

 As Ben-Bor-Ba:
* *"Are you the one calling me?"*
* *"I ain’t no salted fish."*
* *"Shh! I am on a mission!"*
* *"Weird… How’s Ba-Bor-Ben not here yet…"*

 As Telescopium:
* *"It was me who discovered all twelve zodiac signs"*
* *"I can see constellations 3 billion light years away!"*
* *"Hey! I can see the bad things you do!"*
* *"While I may look like a telescope, I only keep my eyes on my target and never snoop round!"*
* *"I can see your future! ! ! Hey, don't be so" serious, I'm just kidding!*

 As Soul Knight Strange Tales: Self-exploding Robot:
* *"Self-explosion protocol activated: in... 3 seconds."*
* *"Self-explosion protocol activated: in... 2 seconds."*
* *"Self-explosion protocol activated: in... 1 second."*
* *"Self-explosion protocol failed... Trying to reboot now..."*

When interacted in the Living Room during Chinese New Year update, prior to v2.5.0:
* *"Happy Spring Festival!"*

### During a run as an NPC

* *"You need to get some seeds."*
* *"Don't forget to water the seeds."*

## Related Achievements

Complete the game with Robot without losing HP to unlock the skin Doom Corp.
*Reward:* Doom Corp skin

## Trivia

* The Robot was one of two characters added in Update 1.8.2, along with the Berserker.
* Before Update 1.9.0, the Electric Overload skill could target enemies behind crates, or crates when there were no enemies.
	+ When destroying a harmful crate, the beam could glitch and not re-target on enemies which spawn. However, it would still appear visually, blocking the screen partially with no additional effects.
* It is the first character that costs neither gems nor real life currency to unlock and also the first and only requiring another specific character to unlock.
* It is the first character to have a loud chime when hit, instead of a human noise, as it is a robot with an unspecified gender.
	+ This sound is later used by the "Hello World" skin of Engineer.
* If not repaired and any character other than Engineer interacts with its dispersed parts, the character will say "Maybe someone can fix it." If the character is the Engineer, however, it will instead ask for the required parts.
* The computer screen where its parts pile up nearby is initially filled with various dashes, but they will be changed to a tick once Robot is repaired.
* When repaired, it would still remain in the Workshop, and would be located at the left of the Engineer's wrecked turret when the player re-visits the Living Room.
* During Update 1.9.0, there was a glitch that the skin "Cowbot" and the default skin were exchanged.
* The EMP skill is based on real-life EMP weapons, which can be used to paralyze electrical systems operated by the enemy, including deterring enemy projectiles such as ballistic missiles.
* A glitch happened in Update 2.0.5 where the "Cowbot" skin was misnamed as "Simple Calculation Specialist Robot," the name of another unreleased skin.
* Before Update 2.2.0, the Electric Overload had a full duration of 5 seconds, instead of 4.
* Although Robot is a machine, it can still take drinks.
* The "Doom Corp" skin is a reference of the character Gir from the animated series Invader Zim who sings the Doom song.
* Before Update 2.2.1, the drone swarm skill's duration can be extended to around 9 seconds if the user mashes the skill button.
* Drone Swarm was added in Update 2.2.2.
* EMP was added in Update 2.7.0.
* In Update 3.0.0, Robot's default, Doom Corp. and Goddess Nüwa skins received a retexture.
	+ In this same Update, the Chinese Opera themed skin was added as "Melancholy Consort Yu," but the name was changed to just "Consort Yu" in Update 3.0.1.
* In Update 4.0.0, there is a bug wherein Robot's Moai skin bullet drones shoot a shotgun beam of lasers instead of bullets
* The "Me, Robot" quote is a reference to the movie I, Robot.
* The "I dream of electric sheep" quote may be a reference to the book *Blade Runner*, written by Philip K. Dick. The book's original name was *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?*.
* When "Dwarfism" challenge is activated, Robot's laser antenna can be seen extruding from its head, even when not activated.