

In working out the specifics of a fake sci-fi robot, you'll face some of the same challenges you might come up against while building an actual robot.įor one, there's the structural design. A Mister Handy has a trio of creepy articulating eye-pods atop stalks, and generally resembles a mechatronic octopus.īut for Fallout 4, out November 10-the series' first outing in seven years, and its debut on the newest generation of game consoles-there's more room for detail, and more need for it.

A Mister Handy can tell jokes, but its "humor emitter array" has to recharge between uses. A Mister Handy hovers with a jet engine powered by a miniature nuclear reactor. "If this was built in the real world, how it would it work?" It's a question answered in part by the Fallout canon, as previous games established key design specifics. "One of the most important aspects of it was functional," Mejillones tells PM. "If this was built in the real world, how it would it work?"
