Drone - controlled via VR

[Embolism]

Simplify! Instead of a specialized shell, why not allow the Roboticists to cram a remote signaller inside a borg head to make it remote-controlled? It'd give a way to use braindead borgs or similarly disassembled ones.

That would make it too easy. You get all the advantages of a Borg without any of its downsides (e.g. law restrictions).

There's one big disadvantage: you're still prone. Your dorky body is still back there making borg noises and wrench hands.

It still lets you take advantage of say ChemBorgs or MediBorgs to hellchem people. And since you can still be human you can mix certain hellchems that Borgs normally cannot mix.