The Roboticist's Dilemma

[Dhaidburt]

I feel like we're getting a little off topic here, lets keep things focused on what roboticists can do without needing someone to die

2: Design a novel system for robotics to be tasked with managing that can provide tangible benefits to to other crew members... I touched on my idea for solving this earlier, but I feel it would be a good fit for robotics to be able to create more useful machines and equipment as time goes on throughout the shift. Things that dont exist on the station and provide useful functionality to others to encourage interactions with roboticists. Ideas that immediately come to mind include:

* A centrifuge that can non-destructively separate chemicals over time
* Specialized gas filters that can extract certain gasses and not others
* Botanical misters / grow lamps with extra range
* Some novel cooking machine, like an air fryer

If the machines required some amount of tech tree research or advanced material costs this mechanic could also be used to limit the availability of more powerful items while still making them available to the crew.

I feel like this is a pretty good way to take things, take a page out of genetics but keep the research costs or research times high enough so that you have time to tinker or modify any cyborgs or handle patients. Something to plan out during the boring times, and something to have in the background during hectic times. 

And to tie things into robotics always being in medbay, i feel like some of the earliest unlocks should assist them first and foremost. Stuff like floor health scanner upgrades, maybe a unique medibot that just defibs, maybe reduced time on addiction removal in the sleepers or a device that damages someone with an addiction but does remove it (obvs has a charge up bar like force feeding)