the robot just did a wonderful impression of a lawnmower on that entire group.
Oh yeah, his great aunt was a lawnmower. Funny how the lawn mowing skips a generation.
347's repairing factor is limited so every hit it takes means it will take a long time to repair so if say it gets cracked open then it is going to be in trouble for a little bit.
I probably should have been more clear on what self-repair is, cause I think everyone's confusing it for regeneration. 347 can't regenerate, that's why his armor is impervious to just about anything. If he could regenerate, they would have given him lighter armor; but they didn't. I probably should be clearer on what self-repair is.
Self-repair is data that the AI has on its own body. Basically, it's programming that tells it how and what to fix. With it, he'd be able to fix physical damage as well as software issues. If his self-repair worked, he would have been able to fix all his memory and data corruption on his own right after waking up. Without it, he needs someone else to fix him.
So in short, 347's armor is nearly impossible to breach because it doesn't regenerate. It
needs to be tough. Self-repair is more like the ability to fix himself up, rather than regenerate. It's only partially broken, so he can run diagnostics and figure out what's broken, but he can't actually fix it because the processes and commands for it aren't there. If an AI doesn't have the right data for something, they can't do it. Just like how he couldn't fire his weapons even if he held them because his weapon systems are down, he can't fix himself because he simply can't do it due to missing data. If you remove stuff like that from an AI, they literally have no will to do it, no matter how much they want to. And since AI's can't rewrite their own code due to safety barriers, there's nothing they can do about except repair it back to normal. Except 347 can't cause self-repair's out the window.
I probably should have been clearer on what self-repair was. Sorry for the confusing.