I found this section interesting because Purple Delta 7 is an extremely evolved 5 million year old through time travel self-maintaining robot. However, she is so advanced and capable of self replicating herself thousands of times or more or turning herself into almost anything she needs to be.
So, she can even create a perfect human body to live in and to live in thousands of bodies at the same time which is interesting too. And those bodies can be human or any species of any size in the universe (or at least in this Galaxy). So, this section on Self Maintenance of a Autonomous robot is very interesting to me.
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Self-maintenance
The first requirement for complete physical autonomy is the ability for a robot to take care of itself. Many of the battery-powered robots on the market today can find and connect to a charging station, and some toys like Sony's Aibo are capable of self-docking to charge their batteries.
Self-maintenance is based on "proprioception", or sensing one's own internal status. In the battery charging example, the robot can tell proprioceptively that its batteries are low, and it then seeks the charger. Another common proprioceptive sensor is for heat monitoring. Increased proprioception will be required for robots to work autonomously near people and in harsh environments. Common proprioceptive sensors include thermal, optical, and haptic sensing, as well as the Hall effect (electric).
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