Frontier Tech 3: Slave Bots

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Inigo Montoya
November 11, 2011 - 3:15pm
I always thought that slave bots were cheesy and too far fetched to put in my games. However, this link takes the cheese out and shows the scientific possibilities. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maharbiz/Cyborg.html

Something like this would also allow for slave bots to be more discreet than the drooling, metal brain capped zombies depicted in original artwork. They could also be used like sathar agents. If it just takes a small chip to alter their behavior as well their motor abilities, it could be easily concealed under an article of clothing or even subcutaneously.
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jedion357
November 11, 2011 - 3:22pm
Cheese Bots!

Cool Montoya.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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w00t (not verified)
November 11, 2011 - 5:42pm
Holy cheese doodles InigoMan!
So... insects will take my job? 
Yell

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Inigo Montoya
November 11, 2011 - 8:11pm
Just think as them as "w00t 2.0" Now if I can just get those guys to give me a few chips for my wife and kids...

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w00t (not verified)
November 12, 2011 - 9:40am
Heh. Sitting on couch while robots retrieve snacks. Wait till the become sapient and spike your Orange juice.

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Inigo Montoya
November 13, 2011 - 6:28pm
hah! reminds me of a short story by O.S. Card about a writer who had his entire home managed by a high tech computer. It ordered food deliveries and everything. One day it decided that the human was screwing everything up so it killed him (via environmental controls or shorting out the hot tub...don't recall exactly how) and continued to write and publish his stories, maintaining the daily business of running his household so as to not raise suspicions. All very w00t-like. Sounds like the basis for a SF mystery plot.

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w00t (not verified)
November 13, 2011 - 6:40pm
Yell I don't manage households.

But I'd be willing to balance your credit-book. Smile


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Inigo Montoya
November 13, 2011 - 7:40pm
I am trying really hard to not picture you  in a french maid outfit...I was really thinking about the murder and the cover up as being something that might have been the product of your neural circuitry.

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w00t (not verified)
November 13, 2011 - 7:45pm
Inigo and w00t in their new lair....


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Inigo Montoya
November 13, 2011 - 7:47pm
lol

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rattraveller
November 22, 2011 - 4:10pm
Not to disparage the wonderful slave bot artwork in the original material but comparing the size of the chip to the size of the insect's brain the cap is amazingly small. You would probably need a backpack and wheeled accessory to carry the needed computer equipment.

So the Sathar really are an advanced scientific species.
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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Inigo Montoya
November 22, 2011 - 4:55pm
Perhaps you have a point there Rat. Although, this chip is merely a proto-type. And what's more, it hasn't been miniaturized by the ifshnits yet!