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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1743329" data-attributes="member: 9646">My idea is that techno-organic cannot exist. I think that organic life and mechanical items are strictly incompatible and cannot be merged. You can add cybernetics, but that's not the same thing: the two coexist, but are not merged. Further, you could create some devices made of organic material genetically enginereed toperform various functions. Such devices could be grafted / implanted, like cybernetics, into a living creature, but would fit better because being organic and based on some DNA of the receiver, etc. That maybe could be called techno-organic, but would nonetheless be totally organic in nature, even if also totally artificial, and thus would be healed rather than repaired. Note that a machine entirely built with such organic material would be in fact a living creature. On the other hand, technology can go a very long way to improve up to the state when it uses new kind of material and systems so a robot would have an organic-like appearance. I think that fully metallic robot ala Star-Wars are already obsolete (despite the fact I much like these kind of robots, and especially those seen in Matrix). I think such metallic robots hardly have a place in hard sci-fi setting. I envision robots built with material that superficially function like muscles for example, being supple, contracting if electrical energy is applied, etc. Now let me suggest this: I once did read in a scientific magazine trying to present future technologies, that there would be "soon" some material that can repair themselves almost automatically. I don't know how such a thing could exist, but if they said so in this magazine, it is probably less ludicrous than it appears? As such, robots could regenerate, and in terms of game mechanics get back hit-points as humans do. However, in any case such robots are always "repaired", never "healed".</blockquote>

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