First up, robot hacking. Opening up the maint panel of a robot with a screwdriver should let you get at the wires same as most machines, they have wires that correspond to their basic behaviors, (on, off, detain/arrest) and a map of the wiring layouts of robots is found in the RD's locker same as CEs. This way you could set up voice analyzers to issue orders or signalers to shut down / turn on your bots. There should also be a wire that toggles the emagged behavior of an emagged bot. This does not allow you to emag the bot without an emag, but allows you to cover up their emagged behavior till you need it.
Second up: Upgrades!! Screwing open the panel should allow you to install basic household items into most types of bot to increase their functionality and add new behaviours, mostly they'll be self explanatory but I'll go over some ideas.
-Spray bottle, causes the cleanbot to shoot sprays of space cleaner at stains random, in range stains as it works. Drastically speeding up the cleaning process.
-Light replacer, causes the cleanbot to replace broken / unlit lights that it sees. Useful for when surges roll through and keeping the halls lit.
-Cleaning grenade, adds a single use cleaning grenade to the bot that it will deploy against extreme mess (basically if the bot is surrounded by enough messy tiles it will foam up)
-RCD, the bot will fix damaged walls and grilles (the damaged floor ones) it will also check for grilles and windows next to repaired grilles and if so replace the window, won't use r-glass even if the neighboring window is reinforced though so mostly it just helps keep the air in.
-Multitool, bot will repair emagged / damaged airlocks. Cannot fix half constructed / massively damaged airlocks. Mostly as a side gig to fixing the floors, it helps stop the air slipping out.
-Defibrilator, the bot will attempt to revive any corpse it spots with its defib, if it fucks up it'll forget that corpse.
-Body bag, adds ONE bag to the borg's equipment, it will attempt to bag any corpse it spots (this behavior happens AFTER attempting to defib). You can add multiple body bags to one borg.
-Handheld Crew monitor, If your sensors are on full automatically summons the nearest medbot with one of these to your location when you go crit, behavior controls can also change that threshold, (although bots are notoriously uncaring about door sanitation and having a bot that fixes everyone's minor boo-boos may lead to grey tides getting everywhere)
-Flash, Adds an autoflasher that turns on when the securitron is apprehending / arresting someone. Stops grey tides and assistants without eye protection from attacking the tron.
-Cuffs, the sectron uses real cuffs instead of crappy zipties for as many times as numbers of cuffs it has.
-Handheld crew monitor, SEEK AND DESTROY, The securitron will automatically dispatch itself to people who have suit sensors on and are set to arrest.
-ED-209
-???all of the securitrons I guess???
*Universal*
- Grenades / flashbangs, activated either when the conditions are met (timer times down, voice analyzer voices...) or when the bot is destroyed in the case of basic grenades, use an acid bomb to stop grey tides from getting beepsky's baton, cleaner grenade your cleanbots so the don't leave oil after death. A grenade of any kind going off inside the bot will destroy it however, use a voice analyzer with 'Level 10 infraction' to stop people emagging beepsky.
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- HONK- ID Card. Destroys itself along with the bot, but can be removed manually. A bot with an ID card can pass through doors appropriate to its access. Beware an ED with all access and seek and destroy powers. (or just turn off your suit sensors)
These aren't the only things you can put in bots though, there should be a ton of random crap that has uses.
