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Bionoid
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Purely biological robots, these are actually also living beings. There are a large number of different forms that are at sophont level, including Synthetic Humans and Erotibots. They sometimes suffer from paranoia and persecution by ignorant nearbaselines and mostly live in their own enclaves. Maybe two hundred trillion sophonts can be included in this category.
Articles
- Artificials - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
generic term for any sophont of a non-biological nature [noun] - Biaioid - Text by Updated 2019 by Rakuen07
A rare form, an aioid with integrated biological parts. Vecs, bots and other ai will sometimes add on biological enhancements or organs for various reasons. - Biobots - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Bioengineered organisms, e.g. bacteria, neogens, etc, modified to act out specific orders. Biobots of some form or another have been used since the middle information period for nanotech (bionano), production, monitoring, medicine and much more. - Erotobot - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
A vec - either softbot or hardbot - employed for erotic or sexual purposes. Generally turingrade, but very rarely superturing. - Softbot - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Biological robot, an alife built entire of organic components. It is alive like any carbon- or exotic-chemistry based life-form. May be of any intelligence grade, from subsapient to transapient. - Synthetic Humans - Text by Updated by Extherian 2020
Essentially a very sophisticated artificial (whether constructed or vatgrown) life-form, indistinguishable in surface appearance from a baseline human, and with a Human Equivalent (turingrade) intelligence and AI self-awareness. - Synthetic/Human Alliance, The - Text by AI Vin
The GJ 3655A-B star system; An alliance of equals between Humans, both biont and Synthetic
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev
additional notes by John B
Initially published on 14 August 2001.
additional notes by John B
Initially published on 14 August 2001.
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