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WCDT Strips 3566 to 3570 (11th to 15th September 2017)
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Sullivan:
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--- Quote from: Sullivan on 11 Sep 2017, 15:53 ---Does anyone else find it interesting that Bubbles made a generalization about the May-type chassis - that "it attracts similarly strange inhabitants"? How many other inhabitants of May-type chassis has Bubbles dealt with?
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Melon and May look quite a bit alike, and she probably encountered all kinds, meat and metal, in the military.
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Three words, 'underground robot fights'.
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Sure, but it's tough to believe that either the military or the underground fights saw a lot of chassis that lost parts as easily as May's. That would seem to put one at a disadvantage in either setting.
--- Quote ---Also, it looks like there's a few different phalange analogues under the synth skin. I guess Roko's chassis has something akin to toes, just not separated externally.
I'd be curious to see a schematic of the internals.
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Probably, since toes are an important part of how we walk, and in general the AIs' human-ish chassis have to be built to walk on the same sort of terrain that humans had already adapted to themselves.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 12 Sep 2017, 02:56 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 11 Sep 2017, 21:14 ---Also, it looks like there's a few different phalange analogues under the synth skin. I guess Roko's chassis has something akin to toes, just not separated externally.
I'd be curious to see a schematic of the internals.
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Probably, since toes are an important part of how we walk, and in general the AIs' human-ish chassis have to be built to walk on the same sort of terrain that humans had already adapted to themselves.
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FWIW, I think that both Roko and Bubbles have at least three individual articulated spars within a flexible toe 'sock' that enable them to adjust their ground contact on uneven terrain or adjust their balance whilst walking on an incline. There is no real reason to have externally separated toes so long as the sock can adjust its lateral angle.
Akima:
Certainly Roko's foot in the third panel in the strip flexes as if it had toe "bones" within the sock of her skin. The toe of her foot looks squarer than a human foot, though, so she might have the equivalent of big toes on both sides of her foot, for example.
A thing that Officer Roko Basilisk has, that no other robot in the strip apparently possesses, is a surname. I wonder if this was a requirement of police department bureaucracy (or just Jeph's word-play).
shanejayell:
Could even be something she adopted because cops just generally have two names.
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