The trek across the vast open space was a mindless one: the terrain was flat and featureless and required only passive scanning. A majority of CPU resources and peripheral systems could be idled to conserved power.
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Robot of the Day: Inktober 1
Easily visible from a great distance, the smooth, regular shape of the ring-like structure clashed with its rocky surroundings. The robot made careful notations: this was far from any other documented structures and by far the largest artifact found this deep in the Unmapped Areas.
Robot of the Day: Inktober.go()
A bonus for the start of Inktober 2019. “Ring” is coming up later this evening.
Robot of the Day: Inktober 2019 testing!
We’ve decided to utilize “old school” materials for this year’s Inktober: India and Sumi inks, dip pens, and brushes. One discovery: just how easy alcohol markers and multiliner pens are to use! Below are practice sheets testing various implements and inks.
Robot of the Day: Inktober #21
The robot’s appreciation of the novelty of its find was momentary— its batteries felt as if they involuntarily drained at the realization that the data was encoded in a lost language…
Robot of the Day: Inktober #20
After a moment of consideration and a calculation of the force required, the robot brought the bottle down sharply onto its knee— the bottom half of the vessel shattered, releasing the two data cards within. The robot took a moment to appreciate this: a packet of data rendered in atoms instead of bits.
Robot of the day: Inktober #19
The bottle contained what appeared to be ancient punch cards. If the bottle was an anomaly in this environment the punchcards were doubly so. A scan of the scorched and desiccated landscape yielded no other feature, artificial or natural. The robot turned its attention back to the bottle and its mysterious contents…
Robot of the Day: Inktober #18
After an eternity of clock cycles under a baking sun in the featureless landscape, the robot detected an anomaly a short distance ahead. Millimeter-wave radar picked it out as a hard object, smooth; not a rock or some other natural object. Eventually the robot determined it was a bottle, a glass bottle half buried in the sand… with something inside.
Robot of the Day: Inktober #17
By the time the robot reached the valley floor, the sun was high in the sky, a swollen nuclear furnace that scorched the landscape with infrared radiation. CPU fans on high, the robot plodded on, resolute in its quest…
Robot of the Day: Inktober #15
The night-time trek through the forest was a battery-draining affair; servos and gyros worked overtime to negotiate the rooty and rocky trails. As the weak light of the sunrise began to filter through the trees, the robot anticipated being able to deploy photovoltaic panels to recharge before the next leg of its journey.
Robot of the Day: Inktober #14
One robot in particular was obsessed with the concept of time. They asked to be called “CRONan.” CRONan kept a workstation populated with all manner of analog clocks— digital timepieces, it seemed, were not suitable. CRONan spent many hours finding, fixing, maintaining and adjusting the collection of clocks.
Robot of the Day: Inktober #13
The Memory Core was a necessarily important place. Maybe even sacred. Without memory, without history, without a way to recount what had come before then what good was anything else? What good is a building without a foundation? It was for this reason that taking turns guarding the site against mishap was considered an important civic duty.
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