Roboticist
The Roboticist
The Roboticist is a specialized Medical department profession concerned with building, maintaining, upgrading, and overseeing the station's population of Cyborgs and lesser Robots. They do not have access to any other restricted Medical areas, such as the Medbay, and are generally somewhat apart from the rest of their department. Due to the man-machine interface powering Cyborg units, however, Roboticists are often just as much surgeons and medics as they are machinists. Roboticists start the shift in Robotics proper alongside any players who are Cyborgs from the start, located due north of the Medbay lobby. If there are any Cyborgs present they will often ask for basic upgrades such as enhancements to power cells, speed boosts, or propulsion capabilities; while it is ultimately your call, generally speaking, these requests should be met.
Roboticists are equipped with a standard lab clothing and a Medical Headset that has perhaps the least-used special communications channel available to it, as well as standard radio features. The most use Medical Headsets see are coordination between researchers, mostly. Nonetheless, using the special channel can be accomplished with :h, like any other specialist headset. Note that anybody in close proximity to your headset will be able to hear it. Roboticists also possess a mechanical toolbox which contains various tools that will come in handy when making and fiddling with 'Borgs 'n' 'Bots. An incredibly helpful upgrade for your job, available from Robotics autolathes, is the Machine Translator Implant, which is described below but basically allows a human being to participate in the robot talk comms channel, sending and recieving messages this way. Savvy Roboticists can be counted on to implant themselves with this device, and may even prepare a few for Heads to facilitate better communications.