The Asimov reason for humanoid robots was: AI brains are expensive, tools are expensive, putting an AI into each tool, or having a second set of tools for AI to use are both impractical, so you make an AI that can use the tools humans can use.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Zan Lynx <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it just for the "coolness factor" of the setting that the ship AI is > housed in a robot instead of being a part of the ship itself? > > I know it was cool in TV shows like Andromeda (seasons 1 and 2 only please) > to have the ship personified. So it is neat in games too. > > But, absent that is there a real-world-ish reason to do it? > > On 1/11/11 10:25 AM, Onno Meyer wrote: >> >> This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the >> GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial >> redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on >> a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until >> I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these >> days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml >> Onno Meyer, 2011-01-11 >> >> Starship Command Robot Mk.VIII v1.0 (TL15) >> Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer >> >> The Command Robot assists the crew of an interstellar or intergalactic >> starship during long bridge watches. The humanoid robot is the shell for >> an advanced AI, which can solve most routine problems and recognize when >> a situation calls for input from the organic crew. >> The Starship Command Robot looks like a large human, and it might even >> pass a cursory sensor scan. There are several different models with male >> or female morphology, but all have a massive torso to hold the computer >> system. Most sensors and communicators are mounted in the head, and the >> arms and legs contain motors and thrusters. >> The emergency power cells last for one minute at full thrust, or 270 >> minutes of standby power. >> >> Subassemblies: Body -1, two Legs -2, limited-rotation Turret -2, two >> Arms -3. >> Powertrain: 0.6-kW leg drivetrain; two 200-lb. vectored super >> reactionless thrusters; 25-kW total conversion reactor; two 810-kWs >> rechargeable B power cells. >> >> Armor F RL B T U >> All: 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40 >> >> Equipment: >> Body: Inertial compass; C11 compact, hardened, robotic, sentient >> microframe (DX 13, IQ 16). Turret: Two medium-range gravity-ripple >> communicators; speaker; two 5-mile AESAs; two 5-mile PESAs; two >> surveillance sound detectors, level 18; ST 10 jaw. Left Arm: 10-mile >> multiscanner; ST 40 arm motor. Right Arm: IFF; ST 40 arm motor. >> External: Living flesh, attractive; biomorphic shielding; surface >> sensors. >> >> Statistics >> Size: 1'x2'x6' Payload: - Lwt.: 200 lbs. >> Volume: 3.2 cf Maint.: 32 hours Price: $397,760 >> >> HT: 12. HPs: 27 Body, 12 each Leg, 12 Turret, 12 each Arm >> >> gSpeed: 20 gAccel: 10 gDecel: 20 gMR: 2.75 gSR: 1 >> Very Low Ground Pressure. Full Off-Road Speed. >> >> aSpeed: 245 aAccel: 20 aDecel: 34 aMR: 8.5 aSR: 3 >> >> sAccel: 2 Gs sMR: 2 >> >> Design Notes >> Body is 1.6 cf. Legs are 0.45 cf each. Turret is 0.4 cf. Arms are 0.15 >> cf each. Structure is heavy, standard, robotic. Armor is standard >> composite. Sealed. 0.017 cf empty space in the Turret and 0.22 cf empty >> space in each Leg. Empty weight is 200 lbs. >> The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third >> printing, December '09 errata], Robots, and VXii (including the armor >> volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. >> >> >> Next Week: A robotic medic. >> _______________________________________________ >> GurpsNet-L mailing list<[email protected]> >> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > > > -- > Zan Lynx > [email protected] > > "Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil." > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- The man that holds fast to his bitterness will eventually be consumed by it, but if you let it go, your arms will be free to seize the glory that is life. -Terwin _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
