Robot-friendly language
Many robots often opt to use more robot-friendly terms when talking about themselves or other robots. These can help such individuals feel more inline with their identity. Below, you can find some of the many examples of such terms.
Terms
Human term | Robot term |
---|---|
Sleeping | Recharging |
Bed | Charger |
Dreaming | Simulations |
Eyes | Optics or Ocular Sensors |
Name | Designation |
Depression | Downtime |
Birthday | Manufacturing day |
Brain | Circuits or Processor |
Hair | Wires or Cables |
Torso or Body | Chassis |
Waking up | Booting |
Tired | Low on battery |
Thinking | Processing |
Happiness | Uptime |
Trash | Scrap |
Human | Squishy or Squishies |
Skin | Synthetics or Casing |
Eating | Refuelling |
Notes
This list is not an absolute set of rules of what to use for robots, and what robots use as some robots may use different terms than what's shown, but robots may opt to use such terms to feel better about their identities and feel more like their true selves, which would be different otherwise.