Monkeys, Nanobots and You.

[amaranthineApocalypse]

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Yes, yes all of my yes.

The remote control terminal could have an ID scanner built in so that only people who have security access can control guardbuddies and securitrons, to prevent roboticists rampaging with the automated security forces. In a similar vein of thought there should also be a remote control terminal in sec.

Perhaps guardbuddies and securitrons could also have a variant of the sechud that also displays when people are carrying firearms and other contraband without an ID with the required access so they can do their jobs more effectively.

AIs should be able to use the console too, or possibly even have an inbuilt version of the console, though that may be too OP. Maybe rogue AIs could be able to "override" the bots over the network unlocking their emagged functionalities for them to use (giving rogue AIs a new tool in their arsenal that isn't just electrifying and bolting doors)

Edit: However i don't agree with having the bots not be able to talk to people, not being able to use the radio channel? Sure. But talking to people who are there in person would just make things so much more fun. Imagine if you will, a grizzled securitron sitting in the bar and talking to the barman about all the horrible criminals (read as "litterers and people who were trying to fight blobs") it's had to arrest over the years while staring sadly at a pint because it has no arms to drink with.

Emagged NPC firebots are actually way more deadly than what you just described.

They spray people and send them FLYING back, dealing a fair amount of brute damage and stunning them for a while.

Maybe they could be given something similar to the high pressure intestines mutation while emagged?