1.1 - Come at me, ro's

[no_fastolfe]

[The last port had sounded... traumatic. Indeed, five years later it brings back Vasilia's memories of Sanitarium Island quite clearly, and that only from listening to network traffic.

It's getting more difficult to restrain her homesickness. And the lack of her household robots, each in their way individual and attuned to her, is never more pronounced.

She desperately needs to talk Robotics.]

For those recovered from the recent port, or any who stayed aboard-- I wonder if any of you I do not know are familiar with robotics? Mister Stark, I believe, has mentioned AI in his posting, among others. A comparative discussion on local robotic design practice or the aspects of Programmatic Intelligence might not be particularly useful in rehabilitative efforts-- but still might be a pleasant way to spend an hour or so?

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[championoftime]

I would actually rather he wouldn't- K-9 had his own sort of loyalty. But he could defend those he cared about, if worse came to worse. That same loyalty is the basis of this gentleman's programming.

[He leads her into his workshop, where the android remains mostly just bipedal wiring, surface area even without the imitation of muscle- he hadn't made it as far as he would have liked with Rex.]

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[no_fastolfe]

May I?

[She doesn't actually wait for an answer to that murmured question before she is leaning over it and running her fingers in the air just above the relays and architectures and wiring.]

This architecture is not familiar to me but I begin to see-- yes, here, and here, why the relay here-? Ah, the power drain to this servo, of course. And what form of power source?

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[championoftime]

You may. Feel free.

Like with K-9, and he has several. They're all interconnected and can redirect power, but the systems that allow for automated systems, mechanical drives, and independent thought have their own power supplies. The most volatile and important, of course, the one maintaining independent thought.

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[no_fastolfe]

Naturally. How much of the neural pathway construction has been implemented-- or designed? [She is now nearly wrist deep in the wiring, though her hands are professional, careful, light-fingered. She is testing the joints connections and where the servos will act, murmuring dynamic control formulae to herself to compare these against robots of the Fastolfe-Sarton design, the sort of humaniform that she is used to.]

Have you a name in mind?

[So many questions.]

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[no_fastolfe]

Of course. If I may, I would like to introduce power regulators here and here, lest a dual-power incident lead to a short? [She indicates a join of wire.]

How much of his intelligence have you constructed yet? And do you intend a name.