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Absent any company and with a few minutes to burn, you make your way over to the workbench near the balcony, taking a closer look at. The bench itself is various shades of blue, an Anaheim hobbyist model, a number of power and data ports running along its sides and back, a few of them connected to the computer setup on the left and others leading to small tools lined up in neat little racks.
Scattered across the center of the table is what you think might be a robotic arm of some kind, a skeletal thing of servos and wires, half assembled up to the elbow. The few sections sporting external panels are chunky, not sleek at all, almost reminding your of the utility arms pods sometimes sport, or simplified mobiles suit limbs… of course those aren’t public knowledge, and they rarely incorporate old fashioned servos like this, the fluid pulse system handles most of the work of moving something like a Waff around.
You don’t recognize any particular model of robot that the arm belongs to, small humanoid robots are pretty uncommon on the market due to creeping people out, and the general preference is for friendlier household assistants that come in non-threatening but shapes; spheres, little rovers, generally small and cute things. One of the books left open on the bench is a programming guide for servo-controllers.
Interesting work. Maybe this is the project they’re working on?
Off the corner is the model kit you spotted from across the room, an empty box for a Saberfish model, a few clipped sprues slid neatly back inside of it and no sign of the assembled model itself. Looking down on the ground nearby you find several other boxes for various models, neatly stacks and… as you pick one of them up you can tell immediately that it’s mostly empty as well. You set it back down and back off a step, not wanting to disturb whatever organization the workbench has; it’s all fairly tidy, in its own way. The models are probably Nina’s, Elena has never sent you pictures of them before and she’s pretty open with you about her art…
