Said Robotic workers are multifunction machines, they have a base 50cm across, 60cm long and 40cm tall. This houses the computer system. For locomotion they have four triple jointed legs (65cm long) ending in a disc shaped foot (10cm in diameter). For manipulation they have four arms mounted radially on a rotating turret. Each arm is as long as a human arm and has three joints (able to rotate 360 degrees on an axis and move back and forth on a pivot) and ends in a socket for one of several varieties of hand. They can walk at up to 10 kilometers per hour. Among them are the general manipulator (four digited hand with two frontal fingers and two thumbs on each side), grasper (a heavy duty mechanical clap), cutter (a 10cm circular saw), power drill, arc welder and soldering iron. In addition they can use human tools. On top of that on a telescoping mount is the disc shaped head, which has an outer shell to protect its sensor equipment, which includes five cameras (four mounted radially and can pivot, one mounted on a top turret which is higher resolution) and a set of microphones. They are powered by an internal battery that will last for about six hours of work, as well as having a couple of plugs and sockets to draw electricity in. They also have a vocoder allowing them to speak in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, Mandarin and Japanese in a mechanical tone (either male or female, there is a toggle). To protect the joints, a set of fireproof cloth sleeves are on the arms and legs. They also each have a a pair of detachable cloth bags mounted on their sides that are 20cm by 40cm by 10cm.
These robots are pretty intelligent and are loyal to you. You can also assign them to other people, in which they will follow most of the commands that you would give them (the exception is that they will disobey any blatantly self destructive command ("rip yourself apart" or "jump off that cliff") or involves attacking each other. They will not rebel. Indeed they are programmed not to engage in violence against human beings (as well as dogs, cats, pandas and wombats) under any circumstances. They do have a fairly sophisticated intelligence and can do some fairly complex tasks if shown how to do them. Give forty of these robots a power-source, a set of blueprints for a house, a site and all the appropriate materials and tools and they will build a suburban house that will be as up to code as its blueprints are. They are not sapient, however.
Said Robots are housed in a warehouse located just outside of town. Said warehouse contains power stations, a workshop for repairs, a reserve of spare parts and a spare parts fabricator. This is an automated machine which builds spare parts for the robots so long as raw materials are fed into it (which it will list for you on a screen). You also have the services of Steve the accountant and Joe, Ted and Larry the security guards. This should be able to meet the needs of your robots if you do not push them too hard. Their wages and the property taxes for the next ten years shall be paid out of a special fund.
You are free to use them in any way you see fit, but you may not sell the robots, the spare parts fabricator or the warehouse. Do so and you will turn into Montie the talking sapient Nile Monitor Lizard.
What do you do with these robots?
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