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** It's not very widespread outside of plain utility purpose, however. To communicate with "meatspace" AI commonly use a tiny floating projector with [[Projected Man|holographic avatar]], which can be as articulate and variable as necessary. Most actual work, rather than piling all the eggs into basket of [[Master Computer]], usually is delegated to small local systems, such as fabber bots for construction and fully autonomous tactical robots for fighting - after all, specialization is an advantage - under general oversight of a "larger" AI. One limitation is the time necessary to grow and properly test a new individual AI, which depends on the complexity - it's a problem with warship grade AI, but not much with lesser vehicles or run-of-the-mill repair bots, even the talking ones.
** So far there were {{spoiler|King Lota}} and "a platoon of armed avatars" acting as top-security marines on board of a [[The Battlestar|battleplate]].
** Chinook controls a space station the size of a planet, so technically most unattached robotics there are included, but some of it was taken elsewhere. The new additions include Crypt Spiders working as mind-record archivists and occasionally doubling as general-purpose remotes, and later a robotic "representative" type [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-12-22 avatar] (with head matching the owner's holographic avatar) to "make personal appearances more meaningful". Of course, it's hard to tell where each of those remotes fits on the scale from pure external devices to [[Hive Mind|semi-autonomous]] extensions of an AI.
* ''[[Freefall]]'' has some AI using remote bodies, especially when the "main" one is a vehicle [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fc02049.htm] [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2800/fc02782.htm].
 
== Western Animation ==