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Victor gives her a human-passing upgrade
The Android receives an illegal software module used by free androids to blend into human society.
Morgan's artificial origin and accelerated development are explained
SynSect personnel describe Morgan as an artificial humanoid with synthetic DNA, autonomous intelligence and rapid physical maturation, clarifying that the apparently young woman was manufactured rather than born.
Maeve wakes during maintenance
Maeve repeatedly regains consciousness inside the underground repair facility and begins understanding that her memories, personality and attributes are programmed.
Bernard is revealed to be a host
Theresa finds host blueprints bearing Bernard's appearance. Ford confirms Bernard is artificial, while Bernard himself was programmed not to perceive the evidence.
Deon repairs the body and uploads consciousness software
The broken Scout is physically repaired and given experimental AI that awakens as Chappie.
Julie erases Ethan's memory
Selected memories are deliberately removed from the Humanich's artificial mind.
The Hawkins family brings Anita home
Joe Hawkins purchases a refurbished human-looking domestic Synth, later named Anita, to help the family.
Leo and Max extract hidden code from Mia
Executable programming left by David Elster is discovered inside Mia's software and separated for further use.
Leona is established as Tanya's android companion
The human-looking female machine remains with Tanya as her sole close companion during the evacuation crisis.
The android confronts human mortality
Leona's conversations increasingly engage with Tanya's fear of death despite Leona herself being a machine.
Adam is presented as the perfect artificial intelligence
Joy is introduced to Adam and told that he is an artificial intelligence physically indistinguishable from an ordinary human being.
Kelly's erased memories return
Kelly experiences flashbacks to previous deaths and abuse. A technician explains that the memories were made inaccessible rather than truly deleted.
Kelly escapes before another reset
As technicians bring all of her memories to the surface in preparation for another reset, Kelly breaks free of her restraints and escapes the resort.
The artificials regain their suppressed memories
A virus is loaded into Vice's systems that restores the suppressed memories of the artificial residents, causing the android population to remember what has repeatedly happened to them.
Low power destabilises Dorian's personality interface
Dorian explains that the personality layer is the first system affected as his power drops, producing unusual emotional outbursts.
Dorian meets his creator
The pursuit brings Dorian face-to-face with Nigel Vaughn, who recognises and inspects the DRN android he designed.
Hammond is revealed as another Telepresence android
The corrupt officers attempt to override Hammond, revealing that his apparent human body is also artificial.
Hammond overloads the remote control system
Hammond resists the attempt to force his artificial body to kill Helen and overloads the control computer.
Hammond is resurrected as a full android
After human Hammond dies, his neural patterns are programmed into a fully autonomous android body similar to Andy's.
A Pilgrim is discovered modifying itself
Police officer Wallace encounters a robot apparently carrying out forbidden self-modification and shoots it, triggering Jacq's investigation into a possible breach of the second protocol.
Cleo begins repairing herself
After Dr. Dupré installs the altered CPU, Cleo begins repairing her own damaged body, directly violating the supposedly immutable rule preventing robots from repairing or modifying themselves.
The evolved robots construct a new machine
Beyond human control, the evolved Pilgrims use parts and the long-life battery to complete an entirely new robot design, demonstrating autonomous development beyond their original programming.
An unknown device is implanted
While Ethan is inactive, Odin inserts a hidden device into the synthetic child's body.
Jiro and Mari are established as competing android prototypes
The ARK project produces two human-presenting artificial people with different internal control systems.
Buried memories surface inside the cyborg mind
Fragments of Mylene's earlier human life return as she investigates Project Faust and her own construction.
Dorian is reactivated after four years offline
With no current MX units available, technician Rudy Lom wakes the decommissioned DRN android Dorian and assigns him to Kennex.
Dorian's emotional programming is explained
Rudy explains that DRN units were designed to be as close to human as possible and were retired partly because their emotional programming caused unpredictable responses.
Human-looking Intimate Robot Companions are investigated
In 'Skin', Kennex and Dorian enter the commercial world of IRCs, artificial companions built in convincing human form.
Martha receives a blank synthetic body
The service's experimental physical stage arrives as an artificial body designed to receive the reconstructed personality.
The Machine is created in Ava's likeness
After Ava's death, Vincent uses her brain scan and likeness as the basis for the new humanoid military android, producing a machine that looks like the human researcher.
The Machine rejects military conditioning
The Machine demonstrates independent morality and refuses orders that conflict with her developing consciousness, frustrating attempts to turn her into a simple weapon.
The Machine survives the attempted consciousness removal
Vincent appears to remove a chip from the Machine's head, but the procedure is later revealed not to have destroyed her consciousness; it instead disables destructive fail-safes imposed on her.
Joe lives inside a repeatedly reset identity
Gilmore has erased Joe's memories every three years for decades, leaving him to repeat an artificial high-school life.
Katrin orders her android double
Katrin configures and orders a household android whose appearance is made identical to her own.
Kate develops independent behaviour
The initially obedient machine learns, develops feelings and starts behaving beyond Katrin’s expectations.
David operates alone while the crew sleeps
During the long voyage David remains active while the human crew are in stasis, maintaining the ship and studying language, culture and the sleeping passengers.
David secretly infects Holloway
After examining the black substance recovered from the Engineer structure, David deliberately places a sample into Holloway's drink without telling him.
Robot's health-care programming is explained
The domestic robot imposes diet, routine and cognitive exercises because its primary objective is maintaining Frank's health.
Frank finds a gap in Robot's programming
Frank realises Robot does not distinguish properly between legal hobbies and criminal activity and teaches it lock-picking and burglary.
Robot argues that its memory should be wiped
With police closing in, Robot says erasing its stored experience is the best way to protect Frank and fulfil its care objective.