Androids

In the future of this world, the science of robotics and cybernetics has advanced considerably beyond what is currently possible. As a result, fully autonomous droids and other machines have become commonplace and are used in a variety of roles from heavy industry to warfare. Those that remain are largely under the control of the supercomputers; some however, have been reprogrammed to serve individuals or organizations. More rare are those that operate individually on their own mandates. These are generally purpose-built experimental units with a self-contained smart AI master intelligence designed to situationally adapt their objectives, strategies, and methodologies.

Androids were popularly used as black ops soldiers, assassins, spies, bounty hunters and couriers due to their unique combination of strength, speed, autonomy, intelligence, precision, relentlessness, and reconfigurablity. However, androids still had a major vulnerability to electronic warfare.This resulted in an greater processing load devoted to thwarting the increasingly sophisticated anticryptograhic algorithms. Additionally, logistical issues resulting from unreliability of solar energy cells due to largely overcast weather patterns from attempts at reversing global warming and increasing rarity of rare earth minerals necessary to produce hydrogen fuel cells and advanced batteries due to global competition and exploitation produced a serious power concern for many machines. This particular issue was much less serious in cyborgs and those with bionic limbs due to triboelectric and metabolic bioelectric charging mechanisms.