Behind the Scenes: Robotics in “Eidolon”

One of the advancements I postulated in the near-future setting of Eidolon is a marked expansion and adoption of human-like robots, which are manufactured and programmed by a large (fictional) tech company named SystemOne. The name of their bots? Eidolons.

A lot of how I imagined Eidolons is based on the speed of advancement of existing tech, on how current tech is (or isn’t) adopted, and on the various pitfalls and ethical questions current tech has faced.

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