Not having played Stray, it sounds like Stray's robots are similar to the robots in Nier: Automata in that they are copying humanity (good and bad) in a (futile?) attempt to understand what it means to be human
The origins are much less explained in Stray. Also you're a cat, more of the setting is intended for the player to figure out via observation - like a cat. You're supposed to look at the world and see it from cat perspective and I suspect to a certain extent you're not supposed to understand it fully because you're a cat.
There are a few hints in the game though - spoiler alert, but in the beginning of the game you see a machine connected to a robot. Later on, you learn that this is a machine used to upload your consciousness into a robot. Most likely, the robots are human consciousnesses that lost their memory like B12
Too many of them are just obviously robots doing a routine for literally no reason. Only the outsiders really make sense as potential humans imo, mentioned in more detail here .
I'm not sure. They seem fundamentally different from the robots in the control center, for example, and it seems that some robots exhibit behaviours that weren't learned and were fundamentally human (for example, the robot that talks about a smell and then is confused at how he can remember a smell). But for me it's really seeing the robots in the control center, having no issues doing useless work for thousands of years and seeming inhuman that did it for me
They have no humans around them, which means they just do their thing. There is a memory that explicitly states that the robots started to break their programming by copying and imitating humans before the humans were all gone. With no humans around them to imitate nothing influenced them.
They understand pretty well what it means to be human - they are fundamentally human in their essence, they just don't know much about the history of humans as it was lost to time
I don't think you can justify that they're human. Never wondered why there are millions of bottles, and drinks all over the place? It's explained as imitating the humans even though they don't even drink. All of the behaviour of most of the robots is just mega corrupted completely pointless actions that serve no purpose.
I mean, yeah, they can't drink and are just trying to imitate. But I think there is something more to it - in the ant village there is a robot that talks about he liked a smell and then caught himself and said something like "wait, I can't even smell". I think there is something to part of those behaviours being faint memories they kept and the rest being imitated as you said.
I'm inclined more towards the creative robots being formerly human. The ones that seem to be able to have independent thoughts and plan things, like the Outsiders who plan to escape the city. Or in your example, the creative painters.
I don't think the musician robot for example is a former human. They don't do creative work, they can only do copying from the music sheets and have played the same things for thousands of years.
Not having played Stray, it sounds like Stray's robots are similar to the robots in Nier: Automata in that they are copying humanity (good and bad) in a (futile?) attempt to understand what it means to be human
The origins are much less explained in Stray. Also you're a cat, more of the setting is intended for the player to figure out via observation - like a cat. You're supposed to look at the world and see it from cat perspective and I suspect to a certain extent you're not supposed to understand it fully because you're a cat.
There are a few hints in the game though - spoiler alert, but in the beginning of the game you see a machine connected to a robot. Later on, you learn that this is a machine used to upload your consciousness into a robot. Most likely, the robots are human consciousnesses that lost their memory like B12
Too many of them are just obviously robots doing a routine for literally no reason. Only the outsiders really make sense as potential humans imo, mentioned in more detail here .
I'm not sure. They seem fundamentally different from the robots in the control center, for example, and it seems that some robots exhibit behaviours that weren't learned and were fundamentally human (for example, the robot that talks about a smell and then is confused at how he can remember a smell). But for me it's really seeing the robots in the control center, having no issues doing useless work for thousands of years and seeming inhuman that did it for me
They have no humans around them, which means they just do their thing. There is a memory that explicitly states that the robots started to break their programming by copying and imitating humans before the humans were all gone. With no humans around them to imitate nothing influenced them.
They understand pretty well what it means to be human - they are fundamentally human in their essence, they just don't know much about the history of humans as it was lost to time
I don't think you can justify that they're human. Never wondered why there are millions of bottles, and drinks all over the place? It's explained as imitating the humans even though they don't even drink. All of the behaviour of most of the robots is just mega corrupted completely pointless actions that serve no purpose.
I mean, yeah, they can't drink and are just trying to imitate. But I think there is something more to it - in the ant village there is a robot that talks about he liked a smell and then caught himself and said something like "wait, I can't even smell". I think there is something to part of those behaviours being faint memories they kept and the rest being imitated as you said.
I do agree that some of them may be uploads.
I'm inclined more towards the creative robots being formerly human. The ones that seem to be able to have independent thoughts and plan things, like the Outsiders who plan to escape the city. Or in your example, the creative painters.
I don't think the musician robot for example is a former human. They don't do creative work, they can only do copying from the music sheets and have played the same things for thousands of years.
Neir vibes was my first impression of the robots as well.