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Design and Efficacy Report on Gamma II Engels – Research and Development Department, Institute of Molecular Nanotechnology
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We have advanced mobility and technological prowess in the field of robotics, and have incorporated the newest science of artificial intelligence. These enhancements have perpetuated steady growth for out robotic units, enabling them to learn and adapt to their own unique operations without contextual need for implementing coding made by a user. There are different scales of our robotic units, ranging from the Nanite insectoids made for nature observation without human field testing, to peacekeepers and protectors of urban society. The former, we determine to be branded “Nanites”. The latter, we deem to be named Engineered Nanotechnology Gyroptics-Enhanced Liaisons, or “E.N.G.E.L.S”.
Each of our robotic units are held in mixed accounts for performed tasks both artillery and auxiliary: job to be performed; operating speed; environment of operation; materials hazardous and non-hazardous lifted or harnessed or handled; range of visual sensory components; length of appendage reach; process variables with controller capabilities; reaction to thrown exceptions, and human involvement. Less advanced and developed manufacturers on the outskirts of urban areas retain a basic machine cortex design in their robotic units to meet smaller applications around general public environments and after-hours warehouses and workplaces. Once basic support structures are designed, the base, arms, spine and legs are built. These parts ordinarily weight close to 200 pounds evenly dispersed around the frame to prevent the robot from falling over. Casting and welding often are not necessary due to the easily replaceable parts located within metalwork factories dotting the landscape. The areas that are replaced are machined with relative dimensional control to assure proper fitting and a motion sensory test is administered by registered technicians to ensure operation of the newly attached components. The main base column and spine are then recalibrated to further complement the newly installed parts.
Generic parts such as electric motors, hydraulic cylinders, bearings, wirings and controllers are gathered to form the conditional and malleable matrix that goes into the anatomy of the Engel. More than three-thousand other smaller parts are then gathered for further chain assembly. One Engel takes close to three months to build and we must take account for the costs incurred for building even a single unit, which can cost upwards of two hundred thousand per prototype unit. Because of this, the Institute has constructed only ten in the last decade, with support from governmental affairs and seed money to shore up finances, typically kept in off shore accounts.
To start assembly, an engineer must first decide if to include mobility to their unit, which drastically reduces resource and monetary costs. Non-mobile units are beneficial for office spaces, food establishments and factory work as they regard human safety. However, based on the original blueprint these may impede available space. Mobile robots then would need traction motors, batteries (which may be ion or oil infused), axles and gears for legs. The base and spine are equipped with ring gears to encourage turn motions early in the development stage, before the unit can take on mobility. This ring gear must also associate with thrust bearings to support the weight of individual and melded parts to establish equilibrium and provide proper electronic positioning feedback to the controllers. These Gamma II Engels are often built in teams for maximum efficiency.
The joints are constructed thereafter, serving to connect the arm to the torso and by extension, the ring gear and spine. Eclipse cutters are utilized to craft fluid motion capable joints, but is coded to move in a predetermined path based on human observation. The joints contain a positioning sensor to provide sensory feedback and positional signals to the controller. The arms are assembled and placed after in a vertical distill, adjacent to the base. These are measured comparably to standard human arms and move in a double-jointed fashion. Enabling far and short reach, these arms contain the necessary bone shafts that operate the wrists, and are made of carbon fiber bone. Attached at the elbow joints of all Gamma II units are retractable bladed appendages and are encased in amber-wooden panels that function as armor would. Because the arms and joints sustain the most stress due to weight proportioning, they are given larger bearings and pivot pins. The most human characteristics of the Engel then, must be the wrists on the arms and the ankles on the legs. They are what replicate human motion by twisting and turning for all basic actions and for correct positioning of items. Preserving the integrity and strength of these parts is accomplished through load-sensing electronic sensors which alert both robot and human of obstruction in operation.
Innovation is only produced by imperfection and through the first-generation Engels, we strove to design human-like characteristics and motion dynamics with five critical components. At its most rudimentary levels, humans, animals and machines adapt and survive through sensory perception and feedback. This is what allows one to sense and react unconsciously in a short period of time. However, the Gamma II Engels take far more processing power to accomplish this due to their lack of a consciousness and inability to process emotions and comprehend pheromones within their own bodies. With time, the next generation will accomplish this in less processing time with efficient energy consumption. English lumber Edmund Lee used this principle to operate his wind-powered mill, the first of its kind. This is classified as a Control System. Through continued advancement with electric and signaled feedback, we have advanced the robotic control system to mimic the human brain and psyche. Rather than a collection of synapses and neurons, an Engel is not impeded by slow paces of brain biology and instead relies on a silicon chip; its central processing unit, or its CPU. Humans decide and react based on the five basic senses, and an Engel’s CPU serves the same function through external sensors found on its casings around the body.
Next, our robots are fitted with sensors in the cranial region of their head, underneath their titanium carved human-like faces. Thirty motors are then fitted in the lower half of the face to display human expressions. The former sensors mimic human sight and intake of sound using light-dependent resistors that function much like the human eye and ears with microphone sensitivity. Because of this, all Engel models are currently incapable of seeing in the dark without night vision sensors installed. With further integration of human biology in recent years, these robots are now capable of touch, taste and smell though these are considerably more complex to implement without proper biological matrix integration. The latter three senses are primarily for synthesis and processing without the need for human contact. Through use of these five technology simulated senses, the CPU is capable of interpreting signals from these sensors, act accordingly in a fraction of the time humans would, and send high-quality reports with recordings to the controllers. There are two kinds of sensors: resistive sensors and voltage-generative sensors. The former represents potentiometers, and measures in three terminals in a chip. Power input, grounding and variable voltage outputs possess varied resistance that is constantly altered when in perpetual omnidirectional motion. The latter largely focuses on electric pressure with quartz as a resonator. As the quartz vibrates, AC voltage is then produced. Modern cars use this knock sensor technology to send signals to the on-board computer that vibration and electricity motion are happening. In the early stages, we experimented with many sensor modules which could complement the titanium skull without risk of rejection or dissimulation. These visual sensors were a LIDAR-Lite 3 Laser Rangefinder and a Pixy CMUcam5 Image Sensor, which after repeated attempts at cross-calibration were the two made compatible. Coupled with potent AES military-grade encryption to defend visual perception, the Engels were incapable of being hacked or infected.
With the visual sensors paired and fitted, two blind spots on the left and right, lateral and distill sides of the head existed. Very few could discern these spots when the Engels stray left and right in search of anything due to the cone perception of sight they possessed. One could theoretically exploit these moments of cone-homing to disable the circuitry in the CPU, but the quickest disabling tactic ideally is to decapitate them. Countermeasures in place ensured that decapitation would not stop the motor functions of the body, however this prevents our units from discerning ally or adversary and thus controllers and armed guards nearby are to evacuate the area until the controller computer can remotely shut them down. This was a recent problem in the Gamma I model that is currently being patched for Gamma III production. Gamma III models are also slated to receive hind vision to add onto the 180-degree vision they are already planned to receive.
To be held as a true robotic unit, actuators are placed in the base of the body to move in reaction to feedback from its external sensors. As this is equally important as the CPU, it is heavily guarded where the kidneys would be as per human biology. The robot is made with titanium, alloy, nickel and similar materials to assist in its defense of its two critical parts. Early actuators used was the L16 Linear Actuator, 100mm, 63:1, 12V w/ Potentiometer Feedback and the Flexinol Moving Butterfly w/ 12V Limit Switch, though the latter proved incompatible with the newest power supply we installed in a later batch of Gamma II Engels. As these might prove useful later, they are scheduled to be installed in Gamma III provided funding will continue to take place after this Fifth Atropis.
Human beings acquire energy from food, and our Gamma I and II models acquire it through a 12V Step-Up Voltage Regulator U3V12F12 ion battery attached to the thoracic vertebrae, sheltered by impact-resistant carbon fiber. The second method of energy acquisition is through contact with direct sunlight and retained via a 3.7V 500mA Solar LiPo Voltage Regulator held in the synthetic ribcage of the unit. Because of the recent cesium poisoning, most towns are now abandoned, leaving solar paneled buildings without retained sunlight and thus, no secondary method of energy retention. Gamma III models will implement this secondary method once control over the cesium situation is established as there is currently no direct sunlight on any coast.
Decisively, the Gamma II units are fitted with end effectors to interact with their environment and carry out their tasks. While the Gamma I Engel units were designed with end effectors that held welding torches and ground tools, the later models which were set for defense are prepared with human-like hands to aid in bomb disposal and have grippers which work in tandem with their sensors to notify ability and report feedback.
Older technology utilized walled wiring for a controller to command a robot in their employ, but we have surpassed the need for walls and plugs due to self-sufficient motion and energy sustenance. The motors contained sensors with which to carry information back to the controller, and status reports to the control computer to analyze and soonafter rectify the flaw in the design, which was solved with human intervention. Our Gamma I Engels followed this format and thus require our intervention, whereas our Gamma III Models will not need this function as they are fitted with self-restoration and recharging capabilities while they are exploring thanks to imbedded coding.
Our Engels at the Institute are built with keen processing intent to endorse global technological utopianism in higher-end societies. As such, they are meant for protection of key figures in the institute and within first-world governments globally. These Gamma II Engels are developing prototypes, equipped with supplementary A.I. to assist with day-to-day supervision of the laboring human element. Likewise, the Nanites work in conjunction in all forms land and air to observe within a 75-meter radius, and with owl-theory inspired Boeing PAL wings, they are impossible to hear with the naked ear, thanks in large part to the aerodynamic spin patterns of the exterior blades which mask the sound movement of flowing air with omni-clock/counter clock wise rotations based on wind nil and meters of air intake per second, generally held at three meters (w(x)/3m). If an atom is 1/10000 times of a molecule, and a molecule is 1/10000 the size of a nymph mosquito, it is plausible to say that our first generation Nanites are roughly the size of living nymphs.
In recent years, our Gamma I Engels were introduced to nanotechnology A.I. With this, surgeries could be performed and more importantly, biological nanotech could be harnessed as was the original intent for them. Human DNA and the machinery of creating life through insemination would create unique structures made of proteins and other DNA as a building block, and the Gamma I models would assist in creating assemblers which print atoms in three-dimensional nanoscale. As humans continue to receive invasive procedures to correct organ flaws and are fitted with bionic limbs and other advanced prosthetics, this Institute was founded by chemists, physicists, philosophers, biologists, computer scientists and roboticists from the most refined societies on the planet to create a nanoscale method of surgical procedure, saving lives and costs for all. Health sensors are made now to monitor vitals, detect irregularities and notify for contamination of the blood and organs provide small doses of medication when in dire straits. Already existing organs on chips could span the planet and prevent live human testing by releasing pathogens to chips which simulate specific human genetic makeups and see its reaction, rather than testing on humans and potentially kill them. Humans are a limited and weak species. Their mentalities and physicality will remain this same way twenty years from where we possess them today. This way, they would become bio-mechanical protectors of Mother Earth.
The lower-class societies simply do not show enough promise to join our ranks due to poor education and low life expectancies, coupled with their inability to afford nor understand nanotech, and thus are genetic material to fuel our next Gamma models. The Gamma II models are exactly that: the consciousness of the people who are of lower classes and demographics, now immortal and serve us eternally to protect and save the rest of the world by assisting in making these technologies affordable for all. This would not only reach inside humans; given funding and time, we are to expand to the aquatic coasts to develop nano-ocean cleaning microsponges that soak up bacteria, pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Even the internet can be reached by way of nanotechnology, in a few short years we may very well be able to upload human consciousness to computers to travel across data and cyberspace, or could be contained in secure files. Of course, this means hacking could occur and perception can be hijacked, which is why this idea is shelved for later exploration.
The Gamma I models could not follow this command due to faulty or outdated construction and extremely limited comprehensive capabilities, so they were designated office workers and guards during Gamma II construction. Due to their inefficacy with modern technology and inability to properly process or defend, the Institute altered their main function codes to instead oversee development of our newest generation: codenamed Project Ideal. The Gamma II Engel models of today are bio-androids; the truest blend of both humanity and technology. Human life spans would reach a state of infinite growth with no stagnation due to consciousness being transferred from mortal bodies to robotic bodies via encryption of the brain waves, where they would be safe and far beyond any level humanity had been before. To ensure humanity’s survival, the Gamma II models were to assist us in destroying the plight that was Gamma I and oversee yet another generation of Gamma; the III models.
A never-ending cycle, all to reach the pinnacle of survival and immortality. Many believed in our message and supported us, helping to wipe out the Gamma I model via violence and brute-force, backdoor hacking. We at the Institute, or even GETRA (home to the Signals and Algorithms Redaction Force) were unable to disable the older units remotely as our servers had updated beyond their outdated software and hardware. The very oldest models possessed motherboards, and thus could not be hacked or controlled remotely, but were on the flipside simple to find due to their dependency on wall plugs for power. Because of it, many of them became hard-wired and disconnected from the GETRA network and had run amok or AWOL. To our knowledge and great surprise, they had built colonies, established families, learned philosophy, attempted intercourse as if it were rituals, identified propane as a power source, and built alloy child-like robots via manufacturing. We could not physically disable them due to the senior robots dotting the entire world, as they had been affordable for all to perform menial tasks. Shutting them down was no easy task, as they were not found through GPS since their breaking off the GETRA network map. Satellites also could not find them, for their chassis were cobbled together by rusted parts and erroneous parts on behalf of whoever had purchased them. What had never changed was their green circular eyes that were placed upon initial production, which I oversaw and implemented for later models.
No matter. This institute has a goal, and a world to save. Project Ideal will now take its next step and recover the Gamma I model recently located for further observation, the newest Gamma III model will be used for more discreet operations. We are close and this new model is now scheduled for release.
Special thanks to Dr. Hyperia, whose recent joining and efforts would perpetuate a new direction for all nanorobotic and chemistry studies, and whose continued contributions led to our co-design and concept of the Gamma II and III model.
Dr. Lentz
Professor Emeritus and Lead Bio-Roboticist, R&D, Institute of Molecular Nanotechnology