Originally uploaded to Bilibili.tv
How would a robot be powered by food? If you just combusted it like fossil fuel then that's really inefficient. If you created a whole system just to have the robot digest food to operate I don't know if it would actually function. I mean yes we can function fine by eating food and going into the hugely complex processes to convert it into ATP but we're not making the desserts out of our own bodies. We use a kitchen. And so you'd still need to power that kitchen.
I suppose in fiction you have the "gray goo" idea where nanomachines can break down materials into elements they can use to build more nanomachines. In some stories these nanobots can repair organic tissue damage that way. But how feasible would that actually be is probably why it's still just sci-fi.
I mean I get that Genshin is fantasy but it bugs me when stories can't really make logical sense. The thing was powered by Kuuvahki right? That's magnetism. I mean how the moon gives you the power of magnetism and the planet can't is a problem for another day but shouldn't the solution revolve around the Kuuvahki energy source then? Either that or the food consumption is a failsafe hard coded into it so that it needs to have destroyed some kind of dessert item in order to continue functioning. Or maybe because all it needed was enough energy to bake goods, its hardware could only take on so much before it reaches capacity and won't absorb more thus making it useless as a weapon. Think about a military drone vs your little remote control one that lasts like 2 hours at best.
Anyway this was still a cute story and I think it really works here in between the two acts of the Archon Quest. Act II takes place "some time" after Act I so having these days in between where we get to know the characters better makes sense.
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