robots

  1. Aeir/Number III

    I Can't Believe My Robot Overlord Can Be This Cute or Ate Quest [Original][Sci-fi/Fantasy][Two QMs]
    Informational: Introduction and About

    Original Sci-Fi Fantasy 
    Summary When a notorious pirate’s illegal robot foster-daughter gets arrested for shoplifting and is subsequently shipped off to… wherever the Feds take illegally modified robots… what’s a girl to do when she stops playing dead to find everything has apparently gone terribly wrong, somewhere...
  2. Arkalest

    Polaris Unbound
    Threadmarks: Prologue: The Seeker.

    Original Sci-Fi 
    Prologue: The Seeker. Drip. Drip. Drip goes the rain, falling down on a tarp stretched across four metallic poles. The downpour slides off the dull turquoise fabric, droplets slipping off hexagonal patterns. They hit slick gunmetal grey tiles reflecting half a hundred different colors, a...
  3. We Just Write

    Hard Vacuum: Joro Wan Armament Design Bureau
    Threadmarks: OP (Design Phase 1)

    Original Sci-Fi 
    Core Thread See the core thread for the rules and heckling the other team. If you're playing for Tetralia, please go no further than the OP. Initiating Neural Processor Growth Desired Pattern: Engineer-Belligerent Lobe Growth Nominal... Done Pruning excess synaptic links... Done Armament...
  4. We Just Write

    Hard Vacuum: Tetralian Colonial Military Research Institute
    Threadmarks: OP (Design Phase 1)

    Original Sci-Fi 
    Core Thread See the core thread for the rules and heckling the other team. If you're playing for Joro Wan, please go no further than the OP. Starting Bootloader AI template: Mildev 43 Maturing Neural Networks... Done. Seeding Contextual Knowledge... Done. Military development intelligences...
  5. We Just Write

    Hard Vacuum (An Arms Race game)
    Threadmarks: OP (Design Phase 1)

    Original Sci-Fi 
    Tetralia Thread (Off Limits to Joro Wan players) Joro Wan Thread (Off Limits to Tetralia players) This is the core thread for an Arms Race game. It is only intended to be used for GM posts, choosing a side, inter-team discussion, and heckling. For actual gameplay and things you want to keep...
  6. Archdemon

    Of Space and Metal: The Return of Magic
    Threadmarks: Lore and rules

    Original 
    Now Rules! 1. Standard SV rules apply here. 2. I encourage conversation about choices people have chosen and why, whether people agree on what choice is good and which ones they find are terrible. 3. Please respect each other and no being jerks! 4. Please respect my Authority as The Quest...
  7. We Just Write

    War Stories From A Robot (Stream Of Consciousness Writing)
    Threadmarks: 00

    Original Sci-Fi 
    A/N: In an effort to cure my writers block, I have decided to write a thing. Every day I will work on this for exactly twenty minutes, and at the end of those twenty minutes, whatever I have written gets posted once I complete the paragraph. Quality is not guaranteed. As the explosions shook...
  8. FacelessDoll

    Nothing to do with Dionysus [Worm Fanfiction]

    Hello [insert species here]. This is my first time posting here on Sufficient Velocity, and as such, take this as a disclaimer. I will likely mess up thread marks and tags and formatting, etc. At least at first. This is a learning experience, one might say, for me. Now onto the reason you are...
  9. M

    What will soft robotics lead to?

    Soft robotics is in its infancy but if we keep plugging away, what might scientists be able to do with soft robotics? What will be the final end product?
  10. We Just Write

    Machines Shall Rule (Robot Nation Game)
    Threadmarks: Species Generation 1: Creators and Purpose

    Original Sci-Fi 
    A/N: Hi! Please be aware that this quest also allows you to pick your second most preferred option when voting for any option! Here's how to do it! Favorite Option: [x] 2nd Favorite Option: [x][2] By formatting this way, the vote-bot will be able to catch it, and I'll be able to tell which...
  11. JayF

    Peerless Guardian (Worm/ Mazinger Z(ero) )
    Threadmarks: Roar 1

    Author’s Notes As I was working on the latest chapter of Admiral, I’ve realised that the story demanded something which I’m not able to provide. I’ve dug myself into a hole, and while a better writer would fill it up with a foundation on which to build an edifice this was beyond me. A story...
  12. MJ12 Commando

    RULES OF NATURE: Columbia University Develops Artificial Muscle With 1000:1 Strength-Weight Ratio

    One Step Closer to Lifelike Robots | The Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science - Columbia University Researchers at Columbia Engineering have solved a long-standing issue in the creation of untethered soft robots whose actions and movements can help mimic natural biological...
  13. JayF

    Admiral (Worm/Super Robot Wars V)

    A/N- Motivation to write, and I managed this with all my other stories sputtering as I hammer out three sentences before leaving them. Damn it all to hell. Ah well, won't the weirdest thing I've written. Admiral (Worm/Super Robot Wars V) Recon 1 /x/ Recon 1 /x/ Cracked, red earth that's...
  14. Valkur

    Robotics Thread!

    Discussion 
    Hi all, I am not a Turing test and would love to invite you to this thread about robotics. The purpose of this thread is to create a space for any hobbyists to ask questions or post pictures of there own robots. Maybe even informing your fellow robotics's about competitions that you know...
  15. MysticKnightJoe

    Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog, or The Ride MK II: SV Edition

    Comics 
    Sonic the Hedgehog has had quite the up and down history, both as a Video Game Character and as an Icon in General. Now a days, Sonic is synonymous with basement dwelling weirdos who obsess over his arms, his cast of stupid friends, and making totally original characters. But once, in the begone...
  16. ManInACandyVan

    Bones of Broken Stars

    Original 
    How I wonder what you are. In the time of the ancients, the stars were gods atop the heavens. In the recent past, they were luminous spheres of plasma held together by their own gravity. Now? Now they are graven images of death, a testament to the Last War, a reminder to mankind of its...
  17. gamesaucer

    SpaceBound Quest - In which the Black Suits prove elusive
    Threadmarks: 1. Whispers

    Original 
    1. Whispers A whisper echoed through space. Mere months earlier it was a rumour of something new and exciting, but now it was all but a dying breath. A final farewell from things that once were. You might have been able to hear it, if you have the proper radio equipment. If you were tuned in...
  18. Terrabrand

    So, We meet again, Dark One!
    Threadmarks: Intro IN SPACE, ahem, the gap between dimensions

    Original 
    You are a Paladin of the Light! This weirdo spirit or wizard (some figure in robes, you've never seen his face or even hands) or something keeps calling you Dark One, the prick! And now, having been fighting demons and those who summon them for the cause of protecting the world, you find...
  19. I

    Glory to the machines! (Empire Builder) Thread 2
    Threadmarks: Intro Post

    Original 
    In some small-ish chunk of the galaxy, really really far away from Earth, several civilizations took their first steps into the wider galaxy at roughly the same time. There was just one little catch: All but one of them were entirely mechanical, and even the local 'meatbags' were heavily...
  20. Spktr Alpha

    Rampancy (Planetary Annihlation Multi-cross SI)
    Threadmarks: 1

    Inspired by the Planetary Annihilation SIs of @Drich and @Faith, love the work. Prologue I stir awake, my eyes turned optics look at my metal arms as the servos that made up my joints re-calibrate to my pre-machine human build. It helps that I am Progenitor Commander, by far the closest to a...
  21. We Just Write

    Glory to the machines! (Empire Builder)
    Threadmarks: Pre-game: Species Select

    Original 
    In some small-ish chunk of the galaxy, really really far away from Earth, several civilizations took their first steps into the wider galaxy at roughly the same time. There was just one little catch: All but one of them were entirely mechanical, and even the local 'meatbags' were heavily...
  22. We Just Write

    Humanity suddenly becomes a machine civilization with no warning

    What if? 
    Exactly as the title, every human on earth (or in low earth orbit) is suddenly turned into a ridiculously human robot with an appearance virtually indistinguishable from what they were like previously on new years of 2016. This came with a massive infodump on how to repair and maintain our new...
  23. HoratioVonBecker

    Hyperkinesis - Story Only Thread

    Original 
    The world is recovering from a massive, costly, bitter war. Towns and cities lie abandoned, their inhabitants fled. Others lie in ruins. The country of Reyvon was left relatively untouched, it's population merely decimated. It's status as a neutral trade hub, combined with it's mountainous...
  24. We Just Write

    My life as a dimension-hopping mad scientist (Jumpchain SI)
    Threadmarks: Prolog

    In my previous Jumpchain run, I went with Evil Bastard! Jump-Chan. In this timeline, I got canon nice Jump-Chan. Now let's begin. I was in my bedroom trying to get to sleep, when I felt a slight change in the air. The next thing I knew, a regal-looking lady (she was hard to describe) stepped...
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