Anthropoids

Basics
The rapid explosion of technological innovation following the unification of Humanity has lead to increased exploration and experimentation with artificial intelligence and artificial bodies.

With an increased need for a workforce able to occupy positions and conditions with robotic persistence and efficiency, coupled with these advancements, development of a product known as the "Anthropoid" surfaced.

All Anthropoids are bipedal and vaguely humanoid in appearance.

Neuroplastic Synthetics
A state of the art, highly advanced type of processor. This technology most directly emulates the functionality of an organic brain, allowing a special neuroplastic polymer to rewire itself, much how neurons in the human brain will form connections with other neurons. This component is extremely difficult and expensive to produce, and is almost invariably used in only the most luxurious or sophisticated anthropoids. This component enables a synthetic to think like a living being would, allowing them to arrive at truly random conclusions, and to achieve truly abstract logic.

Slaved Neuroplastic Synthetics
Identical in function to Neuroplastic processor technology, but constrained and restricted by a conventional processing array that may be programmed to inhibit certain behaviors in a neuroplastic brain. This allows an anthropoid to be free-thinking and dynamic only within its fields of use and specifications. This technology is more common than unguided neuroplastic brains. The most common use-case for this type of processing technology is for field translation units. Units that must adapt to dynamic situations but retain and call upon a wealth of lingual, auditory, visual, and social information to make accurate translations when encountering alien species.

Standard Processing Array Synthetics
The most cheap and widespread method to give artificial intelligence to an anthropoid. This method relies on a dense storage medium contained within the anthropoid that hosts an enormous amount of preprogrammed knowledge, reactionary diagrams, and a semi-static self-adapting operating system running on a conventional cluster of extremely powerful processor chips. Anthropoids that are built with this technique are usually mass produced and widely employed in service and military sectors as "warm-bodies" holding roles that no organic cares to take.

Soft Body Construction
More advanced of the two chassis types, this form of construction makes use of electrical impulse driven elastomer muscles, made and woven to mimic the musculature of an organic body, stretched over a skeleton of alloy or composite bones, also made to mimic the structure of an organic body. A dermis of partially self-healing, silicon-elastomer dermis would be layered overtop these internals, with a tough, abrasion-resistant epidermis covering that in service-sector anthropoids, while a more pliable, touchable epidermis might be given to personal and light duty anthropoids. Self-healing silicon-elastomer casings have a network of liquid filled chemically inert vacuoles throughout the layer, that when cut or abraded, would mix and react to seal the laceration or puncture. Anthropoids that have been damaged may appear to bleed small amounts during this automatic repair process, with the fluid dye being the choice of the manufacturer. Heavily damaged dermis panels would need to be replaced by the distributor.

Hard Body Construction
Your standard metallic or hard polymer robotic chassis. Actuated by hydraulics, pneumatics, rotors, servos. Simple. Cheap. Easy to repair.

Nuclear Isotope Batteries
Less of a battery and more of a very small scale nuclear reactor, these self contained, radiation shielded units are no larger than regular human livers, but produce enough power in a stable enough fashion for average use-case anthropoids to remain operational without charging, 24/7 for up to, theoretically, a thousand years, or until the half-life of the nuclear isotope used depletes power output to a detriment. Cheap. Easy to maintain (practically maintenance free.)

Water Catalyst Hydrogen Reactors
Distilled water is subjected to a catalytic mesh of a replaceable metallic alloy, found to split water into hydrogen and oxygen at temperatures equivalent to a habitable range for human beings at the expense of corrosion of the alloy mesh. The resulting gasses are further catalyzed silently with galvanic cells to produce a sufficient electrical charge to keep an anthropoid operational. These reactors can produce a variable amount of power, and are often used in anthropoids who must push themselves past the power usage a normal nuclear isotope battery might provide, at the expense of increased water consumption and faster degradation of the catalytic mesh. In normal units, these gasses are condensed back into water, and fed back through the system with a near 100% efficiency, but some units might utilize the gas byproduct in a form of perspiring cooling, forming condensation on their bodies to remove heat from working components in a similar way to human sweat. Both units eventually need systems flushed with clean distilled water at regular service intervals to free them of contaminants, similar to a vehicle's oil change.