If a fembot's battery dies....

[1986 Chevy S10]

....would it be more likely that her servos would simply go limp and she'd ragdoll to the floor; or would they become more rigid, freezing in place like a statue before taking the tumble? And, which do y'all prefer?

[Windupdolluver]

Scenario 2: She becomes rigid and falls to the floor would be the idea scene.

[C7373]

Scenario 2 is also my favourite!

Scenario 2: She becomes rigid and falls to the floor would be the idea scene.

Sorry to divert convo slightly but I was wondering if you knew of any scenes with this scenario? It’s my favourite but I don’t really know any

[apok]

I'm thinking a slow ragdoll. The joints still give, and gravity wins out, but there is some mechanical resistance.

[forenuser]

Hi there!

I guess that depends on how the power train is designed and build.

For arms and legs i could image a hydraulic system on which i would not build a system that opens all valves just because the battery is drained. Same goes for pneumatic systems which i can imagine to be used in wrist and fingers, but eventually it is hydraulic again.
Electric motors i would use for smaller parts which do not require permanent motor support/usage or which does not have to provide much strength.

What would i prefer? Hm, depends on the story or story telling, i guess. For the smutty stuff i guess limp limbs are more fun…


With kind regards
forenuser

[handle2]

it also depends on the stability of the inherent design. There are two types of stability you're looking at here.

The first is a design that is inherently stable - when failing, it tries to default to a pose or stance that keeps it mostly standing. The trade off for this is possibly less realistic movement. You can see this in the Failure Modes of Disney animatronic-like robots, where they are engineered to fall into a sort of half-life when things go wrong.

The second is one that breaks badly when things go wrong, much like how a modern fighter jet is more agile, but falls apart horrendously when its power is cut because everything was never intended to be unpowered.

The pinochio puppet on strings is more flexible and lively than its counterpart Poseable Figure in the right hands in realtime because it was never designed to fall into a stable position without those hands. That seems to be about the size of it for all things in general - the most flexible and beautiful things breaking apart into shambles without the guidance of power or a creator or a controller who knows how they move and how to make the most of their agility and flex. Chaos is the default. The guided beauty you see in anything - ASFR or not, is often the product of the will of the controller and creators, not the product itself that will fall apart in the absence of those wills.