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Technology > Technology Type or Material > Drytech/Hylotech
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Sophonts > Modosophonts > Vec

Image from Steve Bowers

A fractal vec, a flexible robot structure, where each manipulator branches off into smaller copies of itself, forming a fractal tree over many scales (usually down to the nanoscale). Each branch contains a distributed system to calculate movement and minimize central processing. Many SI:1 entities use a mobile bushbot to interface with in ril.

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Development Notes

Text by M. Alan Kazlev

Initially published on 08 October 2001.