Thinking Robot

Thinking robots have no known magical or living organic components. They are traditional automated machines which have gained sentience either through advanced desgin, the emergence of consciousness due to increasingly complex program loops, or due to an unknown malfunction.
Robot construction may be primarily metal, but could easily have their structures made from plastic, wood, or other materials. Traditional computer processors, motherboards, and robotic circutry is usually found powering these machines. Crystal driven thinking machines, and hydrolic or fluid dynamics driven locomotion are unusual but known cases.
Thinking robots are generally unique creations, either due to their accidental nature or difficulty in construciton. As such they have no distinct culture, and often imprint on their creators or the society they find themselves in.
They are usually capable of speech, and rapidly learning knowledge. They are often high intelligence but low wisdom entities. It's not unusual for them to possess high strength, or advanced combat abilities, including built-in weaponry and natural armor.
Thinking robots tend to be vulnerable to lightning or electronic attacks. They may also have vulnarbilities to water, specifically being submerged in water, though waterproof and waterborne variants are more than possible.
Thinking robots often have a unique ability to interface with computers or other electronics, as well as the capability of wired or wireless electornic communicaitons. Thinking robots may also be vulnerable to their programming being hijacked or corrupted, similar to how organic sapient creatures may be charmed or confused.
Thinking robots may have self-repairing abilities, and often have methods of restoring their programming after corruption. These self-restoration abilities can take time and "rest," and can be aided by specialized craftspeople or the availability of resources.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Thinking robots may take a variety of forms, and may have the ability to assume a variety of forms, modes, or configurations.
Typically robots are designed to resemble humanoids, with a distinct head and body, with the ability to perform locomotion in a facimily of upright motion.
There is really no limit to the form a robot could take, and could easily have acquatic, gliding, or other forms of movement available.
The construciton of these beings, due to their non-magical nature, have physical limitations. Thinking robots tend to be heavy, and as such their forms reach a natural maximum size. Thinking robots tend to be specialized towards one form of transportaiton, or towards certain tasks. Attempting to build too much functionality or ablility into a single robot generally meets with failure or complications.
Commonly known thinking robots have two arms and two legs, or sometimes rolling tank-style treads instead of legs. They are most commonly known to have bodies made from metallic alloys due to their strength and durability. They may be constructed from other materials, including plastic and even wood.
Robots generally have a "brain" in the form of a central processing unit, and a "nervous system" which sends electronic signals operating their body. Robots usually store energy in the form of batteries, which are rehargable, granting them autonomy. Occasionally nuclear batteries may be used to give thinking robots funcitonally indefinite energy.
Oil or other fluids may be analagous to blood or other organic fluids in living creatures. Other internal machinery or components, like relays, secondary processing units or circuit boards, may be analogous to organs.
Thinking robots may need certain resources for repairs or upkeep, or to aid in recharging batteries, akin to needing food or medical care.

Biological Traits

As opposed to cyborgs and some warforged, thinking robots typically have no biological traits.

Genetics and Reproduction

Thinking robots typically have no known reproductive abilities. It's theorized a thinking robot could construct a new robot, but due to the complexity of their design and often accidental nature of their sentience, this would be a rare event.

Behaviour

Thinking robots sometimes seem to have no emotions, or it is in quesiton whether or not they are simply mimicking humanoid emotions and affectations when they do so.

Additional Information

Uses, Products & Exploitation

Thinking robots were often created for a labor or military purpose. As such their very existence is one of exploitation, though their emerging intelligence makes them independent beings.
Thinking robots may produce waste byproducts, including cardon dioxide, carbon monoxide, solid battery waste and nuclear byproducts.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Thinking robots may easily have the typical abilities of humanoids, including vision, darkvision, and hearing.
They may lack traditional touch as a sense, but can use sensors or other feedback to detect physical contact or vibrations.
Thinking robots typically have difficulty sending and receiving traditional telepathic communications, though exceptions are known. Thinking robots do often have the ability to silently communicate electronically, sometimes through radio waves and sometimes through an electronic port interface.
Thinking robots easily can have expanded visual ranges, granting them infravision, nightvision, and, at the cost of additional energy, x-ray vision. Likewise they may be able to hear frequencies or hone in on sound sources from a great distance depending on their abilities.
Thinking robots typically lack a sense of taste and smell, though may be able to analyze air and organic samples to determine their composition.

Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms

Thinking robots typically recquire a creator species and often are dependent on their societies or specialized industries to maintain their existence.

Civilization and Culture

Average Technological Level

Thinking robots inherently are advanced technology, and as such natively understand robotic-age technologies.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Depending on memory capabilities, thinking robots may learn a variety of languages.

Common Dress Code

Thinking robots typically do not see the need for clothing, unless as a diguise.

Origin/Ancestry

Non-thinking Robots

Lifespan

1 - 12,000 years

Average Height

1 - 25 feet

Average Weight

400 - 800 pounds