Howdy all,
Came up with this idea after a few letters to Catie Helm on
high tech shopping expeditions.
With high tech, who's gonna buy 'off the rack'?
CraftID: Lagarfeld Fashionbot, TL12, Cr 94205
Hull: (1/2) Disp=125Liter, Config=6USL, Armor=2F,
Unload= 126Kg, Loaded=126.3Kg
Power: (1/1) Fuel Cell=20kw Dur=2dys
(1/1) Power Interface
Loco: (1/1) Wheels P/W=20 Road=140, Offroad=7
Comm: Voder
Sensors: Visual+Telescopic*2, Audio, Densiometer=1m
Devices: LtTentacle*4, HoloDisplay, Taylor Tool Pkg*2,
Financial Pkg
Off: Ever see Karl Lagarfeld's stuff?
*Some* might find it offensive... Heh Heh Heh |->
Control: Brain (Linear=20, Parallel=5, StdStorage=70)
Programs: High Data, Basic Command,
Valet-4, VacSuit-4, Mechanical-1, Emotion Sim
Other: Fuel=7Liter, EMLevel=Mod, ObjSize=Small
Strength=17
Dexerity=15
Intelligence=3
Education=7
Given the raw materials, The Lagarfeld fashionbot can produce an
individually taylored garment in less than an hour.
The sophont to be fitted merely goes through an interactive program
with the machine describing the item of clothing to be produced.
The robot's sensors can take the measurements and visuals of the
client and project a holo image of the client wearing the clothes
before they are made. In such a way the sophont can see exactly
what they will look like in the clothes and adjust them to their
taste before manufacture.
With four dexterous tentacles and two tayloring packages, the bot
Lagarfeld unit can work with any material: leather, cotton,
synthetics, fur etc. etc. The small lasers of the taylor packages
are used for cutting and welding synthetics for taylored vac suits.
To produce a taylored vac suit requires access to tech level 14 or
better materials though.
Should the client be uncertain of a what they desire, the robot has
an extensive memory of past fashions and styles. It's emotion
simulation programing allows it to make suggestions tactfully. The
machines can improve their skills as they learn, and as a machine
becomes more experienced it can (and often does) become more
forceful with it's suggestions. [Warning: such robots become
bored with making run of the mill stuff and tend to push more
fancuful creations.]
Thus, a high tech clothes shop tends not to be so much racks and
racks of clothes, as large selections of cloth and materials.
Sales clerks aide in the selection of the material and direct the
clients to the robots. Thereafter, they make agreeable noises as
to the quality of the finished product.
Scott 2G Kellogg
Altaira: Robby? I need a new dress.
Robby: Again?
- Forbidden Planet