ROBOTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS. ROBOTS THAT NEED TO STAY HOOKED INTO THE GRID OR RLSE THEY SHUT DOWN IN A FEW MINUTES. ROBOTS WHO CAN’T TRAVEL BECAUSE THEYRE HOOKED INTO A BANK OF BATTERIES
ROBOTS WHO OPERATE WAY ABOVE HUMAN PROCESSING AND COGNITION SO THEY INTERRUPT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS BEFORE YOUVE ASKED THEM
DO YOU HEAR ME CA. YOU HEAR ME….
Robots who act like 90s laptops. Yeah they still work, but they had to have their hard drive swapped out. They can’t be used portably anymore because their original batteries are long dead and no one makes replacements anymore. They have memory issues when they first wake up because their cmos battery died, and leaked, and the corrosion means they can’t hear out of their right ear anymore.
They can’t interact with the modern world without some assistive devices, because they were built in an age of dial up modems. They don’t know what ethernet is, let alone wifi or 5g. But they’re still kicking! Their vision may be a little blurry, they’ve got an old LCD with some backlight problems, but they manage.
They just need to be careful. Their plastic is getting brittle in their old age. They’re not worried about the yellowing, of course. They could try retrobriting it but they consider it a badge of honor. It shows they’ve been around a while.
The tension of a robot wanting to retrobright because they don’t match their memory of what they looked like, but also not wanting to retrobright because it shows how long they’ve been around….
