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Once you have your stream of cyborg shells, Positronic Brains at the ready, and you have made all your bots, you can now waste valuable time and resources on fancy exosuits. If all of the Shaft Miners died fighting megafauna or R&D is wasting their points researching space pods instead of upgrades, you can use your R&D Console to sneakily wrestle a few exosuit techs out of them before the Research Director yells at you over the radio.

==Other tips==

#Your exosuit fabricators start synced to the Ore Silo. This will pretty much solve any material management you might have had to do before, just make sure that you have enough materials to build what you want before you start.

#Glass and flashes are important for your robotics work, as are various devices, security equipment and rare minerals. Don't be a fool and print all the cyborg pieces and then realize you forgot the flashes. Add them to your queue too.

#Ensure you have proper eye protection when you weld, or you'll become blind quickly.

#You can "[[Guide_to_hacking#Cyborgs|hack]]" borgs by exposing his wires with a screwdriver (after removing it's battery). Any roboticist that pulls his weight can reset a borg's module.

*Recognize that the QM might be more inclined to get you some minerals and toys if you personally go and upgrade his machines alongside building new ones.

'''Don't:'''

*Blow all the cyborgs because one was emagged.

*Go on exosuit rocket launcher rampages 'because you can'.

*Build an exosuit for anyone who just comes by and asks for one (And won't accept a Tracking Beacon)

*Build a combat exosuit without saying a word to RD or Captain and Security.

==Tips==

**Anywhere between adding the robotic arm and the sensor module, you can write on the assembly with a pen to rename the resulting robot, much like cyborgs. This is useful for keeping track of medical robots, as otherwise they're all just named "Medibot".

**Additionally, you can make medical bots out of any of the different colors of first aid kit available on the station, and the resulting medical bot will keep that color.

**Medibot assemblies can be crafted to the last step, and then stored in your backpack. Proximity sensors are tiny items, and can fit in your pockets and your internals box - so it's entirely viable to carry and deploy a small army of medical robots, simply by combining the proximity sensors with them in your backpack. They'll spawn on the ground there and then, ready to work.

**Again if you have medical access, you can stop an already-deployed Medibot from running away after the nearest hurt person as you drag them towards where they're needed the most simply by temporarily turning them off. You don't even need to unlock them to do this, and turning them on again is simple.

**Medical robots all use the same chemicals as standard, so it won't stack if they inject a lot of it into you at once or if multiple medical robots inject you. The chemical will, however, linger in your body at high concentrations - I've been brought out of crit several times because I had two medical robots healing me a few minutes before.

**Offering a tetrality of appropriately named and colored medical robots at the chapel to the Spess Machine God Mechatron will grant you his favor.

*RIPLEYs are a Roboticist's BEST FRIEND.

** They are Relatively Cheap

** They Have Storage Capability

** A good roboticist should have one on hand at all times.

** At Materials 7, fully upgrading the Exosuit Fabricator changes the cost 19,200 metal (down from 21,600 metal)

*** Metal: 329400 (87.84 sheets); Glass: 32400 (8.64 sheets); Silver: 27000 (7.2 sheets); Uranium: 10800 (2.88 sheets)

*** Metal: 264000 (70.4 sheets); Glass: 28800 (7.68 sheets); Diamond: 9600 (2.56 sheets)

** tl;dr -- Combat Mechs mostly cost exorbitant amounts of metal - a stack and a half at least in most cases - but not actually that much of anything else.

===Tips for Traitoring===

==Being an Evil Genius==

Traitoring as a Roboticist is fun and easy, especially since you spawn with flashes, and an expectation of building very dangerous machines. Your high station access, and access to tech storage will allow you to get pretty much everywhere,considering that you can have gloves off the bat. And, of course, [[Syndicate Items#Cryptographic_Sequencer|emagging]] any of your basic creations serves to cause havoc and chaos. The toxins kit's contents poured into a single large beaker of an emagged Medibot can create a very dangerous 'helper'. Emagging the cyborgs equips them with a Syndicate lawset, gives them special new tools, and prevents them from being fucked with on a control console.