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Just how complex is Bubbles' chassis?

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Gyrre:
I'm kind of surprised this isn't a topic yet. Or if not just Bubbles' chassis, the AI chassis in general.

Bubbles has synthetic skin, muscle, and hair. Her skin covers the joints in her hands, wrists, elbows, knees, ankles and feet, but it doesn't cover the seam at the base of her neck. The neck seam appears to serve as cooling ventilation. She's got individual fingers, but only 3 toe analogs that don't have seperate extentions in the skin. Bubbles has an olfactory system tuned to detect chemical and biological weapons. A

Whether or not Bubbles has a hip or shoulder seams is another question. The leotard she wears prevents us from answering a few questions directly, but there are things we can infer. We can see what appears to be hip joint seams in #3475. Her shoulders look to be different, though. Looking the muscle grouping of her shoulders, I'd actually be willing to wager that she doesn't have a seam in her shoulder like many of the other AIs we see. Which would make h the only AI we've seen who synthetic muscles extend all the way through her shoulder joints. Which means if one of her arms gets severely damaged, she has to have surgery and can't merely swap it out. We can also infer that she doesn't have a waist seam either thanks to her muscles.

So, after all of that, if she ever takes of the leotard, would she want to wear a sports bra to keep things in place when doing extensive physical work?
That question popped into my head when I was waking up today for whatever reason.

Gyrre:
In my defense, real world governments have wasted money on far stupider things than giving a robot super soldier jiggle physics.
The Golden Fleece Award
EDIT for clarification.

jwhouk:

--- Quote from: Gyrre on 24 Feb 2018, 15:59 ---In my defense, real world governments have wasted money on far stupider things than giving a robot super soldier breasts.
The Golden Fleece Award

--- End quote ---

+1 for mentioning my favorite politician to ever come out of the state of Wisconsin. The world needs more Bill Proxmires.

Gyrre:
Yay points!

Though, isn't Congress filled with too many money-wasting assholes already?

"We're spending twice as much on our military as the next 9 highest countries. Isn't that a bit much?"
"It's not enough! The terrorists might get us so we have to spend even more!"

EDIT: forgot to type 'many' the first time.

BenRG:
I think that the design of the military chassis reveals something about the objectives for the combat AI program. The Pentagon didn't want a walking tank (for that they would have designed her chassis as a Veritech or a Gundam). They wanted a super-soldier who looked like a soldier. They wanted a being with whom human soldiers would feel instinctively able to bond as a fellow being rather than a bit of talking technology. This required that military infantry chassis be strongly anthropomimetic, right down to some autonomic reactions, so that human soldiers would instinctively feel at ease with her.

With regard to Momo, I suspect that her new chassis was designed for receptionist/secretarial AIs. So, once again, extreme anthropomimetics are required as such AIs would be required to present as human in order to put visitors at ease.

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