What do you think aquatic robots should look like?

[Bezborg]

Let's brainstorm, in lieu of having anything better to do haha.

Would an aquatic robotic construct need any type of a heavy metallic frame/infrastructure? Would the labour needs of an aquatic species rely on artificial strength, or an ability to withstand higher pressures (under the assumption that the dominant species did not evolve on the bottom, and needs something to go mine the bottom without exploding their own brains... Would an aquatic robot just be able to inflate and float stuff to varying degrees? Would its propulsion mimic naturally-evolved options and its creators, or...?

Share your concepts, for fun. Also share your predictions on what PDX will do with them

I bet on something tentacled and octopus-like.

 

[Minuro]

I think it will look like a crustacean. My point is that there is already a robot that has tentacles; the moluscoid. Therefore, the next logical step is to make a crab.

 

[Bezborg]

I think it will look like a crustacean. My point is that there is already a robot that has tentacles; the moluscoid. Therefore, the next logical step is to make a crab.

Crab is kinda insectoid, which we also have. Necroid one is a bit crabby, isn't it?

Maybe they make some sort of translucent membrane baloon with a bit of circuitry

 

[Dragatus]

It's not going to be tentacled, we already have the molluscoid robots for that. I expect them to look fishy.

 

[Mastikator]

Like a submarine with arms

 

[Bezborg]

Like a submarine with arms

They don't have the guts to do something so basic and unexpected and funny

 

[Pancakelord]

If its aquatic it should look streamlined.. maybe a torpedo with arms? Or for something that can withstand a lot of pressure - a sphere, with arms (or floating hands, controlled via magnetic fields or something) and little jets so it can float about under sea and on land.

 

[Archael90]

What do you think aquatic robots should look like?​

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[MateuszS]

How about Reapers from Mass Effect?

 

[Critical Ethics]

Like this:

 

[Quinzal]

 

[Eled the Worm Tamer]

Boaty McBoatface and other deep sea exploration drones would be nice. Something a bit chunkyer and more funtional.

 

[Mastikator]

Boaty McBoatface and other deep sea exploration drones would be nice. Something a bit chunkyer and more funtional.

THAT'S the future name of my synth ascended fish people!

 

[CassalettIV]

Take inspiration from 20th century submarine suits! They always looked robotic -and intimidating- to me.

 

[Farbros]

I think it would look similar to the necroid swimming in aquarium-suit.

 

[Quinzal]

Looks like we were all wrong, but I for one am perfectly happy to be wrong.

 

[moglus]

From the DD:

I really really wish the robot hadn't been so humanoid but oh well, I can always just use the molluscoid one when I feel like it's more thematically appropriate. Just feels a little like a missed opportunity

 

[Farbros]

From the DD:

I really really wish the robot hadn't been so humanoid but oh well, I can always just use the molluscoid one when I feel like it's more thematically appropriate. Just feels a little like a missed opportunity

Oh it was a robot, I readed few times throw the diary and couldn't find the robot portrait . I think that "wooden" parts should be metal, because it doesn't look like a robot.

 

[Reedstilt]

A couple months ago, I did a batch of suggested "Ichthyoid" portraits for a Fish-themed species pack. Imagine my surprise when we got Aquatics so soon after that!

Anyhow, here's the little sketch I did for their robot.

 

[moglus]

Oh it was a robot, I readed few times throw the diary and couldn't find the robot portrait . I think that "wooden" parts should be metal, because it doesn't look like a robot.

I think it's supposed to be shell plates, not wood. Considering the overall "pearl-like" aesthetic of the portrait