Congratulations Ma’am, It’s a Beautiful Baby Robot
by Sean Viola
Arcing through the sky, the sun's rays gleamed on the round metallic surface. Inside the uteropod, the unborn mechanical fetus felt the first pangs of its lifespark flaring. After a month spent nesting in the continual daylight of the Arctic summer absorbing the sun's rays, the
uteropod's onboard Maternal Processing Unit activates. In just three short weeks, a brand-new robot will be born. It will be the first robot produced autonomously by members of the R.C.C. (The Robotic Consciousness Collective), the governing body of robotic affairs, and not in conjunction
with human robotics specialists.

But first the baby will undergo a rigorous two week long soldering and configuration process turning the mechanical fetus from unrecognizable form into wonderful ball of mechanical joy. Before the uteropod was sent to fertilize somewhere in the Arctic, they filled the uteropod with various
pieces of metal. The assortment placed inside ranges anywhere from screws to pipes to small bits of metal, also included was a rudimentary Anthropo-psych drive (which functions as a robot's brain). Inside the uteropod the onboard MPU will spend the final week interfacing and debugging the robots new body with its developing consciousness.

Here it is three weeks having passed since the MPU kicked into gear and a new era is about to begin. The hydraulic hinges in between the solar-conductor plates of the spherical uteropod expel air and the plates separate.