Urbot

Urbots are drones that have had a Precursor Artifical Intelligence core attached to them. These Urbots have sentience, although the Guild of Engineers would deny that.

The Guild of Engineers owns the patent on Urbots. They require all Urbot owners to bring in their Urbots once a year for core maintenance. However, between the availability of Guild outposts and many Urbots being on far-traveling ships, this doesn’t always happen. During the tune-up the Guild wipes the AI core, resetting most of the memories and personality and restarting the Urbot from scratch. Urbots that aren’t regularly wiped develop personalities, new skills, and even start making decisions for themselves (which the Guild insists are glitches). Urbots that have not had their memories wiped yearly are considered highly illegal.

Urbots can power down and go dormant, losing many if not all of their memories, reactivating with only core instincts and skills.

Urbots come in all shapes and sizes. The only commonality between different Urbots is their use of a Precursor AI core. Urbots can be used for everything from mundane tasks like housekeeping, to jobs considered too dangerous for humans and most xenos, such as manning the mining rigs floating above the gas planet Vet on Outpost SB-176.