Well it’s easy for people, a good bonk to the head and boom sleep, or a concussion or both, or death but hey no one specified how long the sleep lasted or if there wouldn’t be any permanent damage so meh

I am actually familiar with the idea of a robot breathing from Star Trek. There is an episode where someone is examining Data and notes that he breaths. He then gives more or less the same reasoning you did.

Oh, I never said that human beings are incapable of such feat. What I was asking about is whether or not this is constant or perhaps a variable thing that robots in PV-verse can do. Because – all things considered – they might be more capable of switching their “consciousness” state at will.

Socket for one, said she can go into “storage mode” and sleep upright, probably implying this is conscious switch of her current state rather than slow “falling asleep”. But then again she’s quite unique so she’s not the best example of typical robot behavior for such a thing in this universe. So then I asked how do *robots* typically fall asleep in PV-verse.

I think it’s like wireless charging a phone on a doc, but the bed is able to charge anything on top of it, but it won’t connect to the other device . So it would be funny if piv came home to find collet charging her phone and laptop on the bed, or collet actually on the bed eating chips with unlimited charge on her laptop.

Actually, depending on how you cool parts, breathing COULD occur. If you wanted something human like, having it be air cooled, with new air being taken in through the mouth and then forced out after it has made a pass through the systems, you would end up with something like breathing. It could even switch back and forth rather than doing both constantly, so the warm air that just circulated can clear out before drawing in new, presumably cooler air. It would even increase with more activity, as you run your systems hotter and need to circulate more air. It is a sort of fascinating way to emulate life’s need to breath in a machine, and could even result in some strange coincidences that further that, like for example needing a breathing mask for underwater so you can still cool your systems. Waterproofing doesn’t matter if your circuits are melting from heat.

Just Socket. Her origins explain all that.