[SPOILER] Can I pass this level without hurting anyone?

[Jafaroff]

So, zeppelin has arrived. I need to find a robot's chip. There are two "living" robots, one of them friendly K8, another one is crazy quiet robot. So... easy solution is to kill one of them with shocker and get a chip. I tried to kill crazy robot, but after this my little companion robot K8 doesn't want to go with me anymore. So, is there a possibility of finding chip without hurting one of the living robots?

[Raith]

I don't think so - but schematics findable in the game imply that the little robot that helps you open doors is not built with a neural link and just runs on a program - so by destroying that one you are not killing an uploaded person like the others. Just destroying an automated tool.

[Jafaroff]

Yeah, got it. But this is kinda horrible, that little robot is so cute, I don't want to kill it x( It reminds of Portal's cube somehow

Btw, ingame schematics says that there are four models of robots. I found some not working old metal stuff which looks like third model, but it didn't have a chip.

[dr4g0nb0t]

Originally posted by Raith:

I don't think so - but schematics findable in the game imply that the little robot that helps you open doors is not built with a neural link and just runs on a program - so by destroying that one you are not killing an uploaded person like the others. Just destroying an automated tool.

Originally posted by Jafaroff:

Yeah, got it. But this is kinda horrible, that little robot is so cute, I don't want to kill it x( It reminds of Portal's cube somehow

Btw, ingame schematics says that there are four models of robots. I found some not working old metal stuff which looks like third model, but it didn't have a chip.

Hey guys, I know this post is very old, but I thought you might find this interesting anyway, if you haven't figured it out on your own already.

I hate to break it to you both, but I bid you to reread the robot schematics very carefully.
The cute little guy we love so much is called the "K8(UH8)"- it is equipped with a "complex AN-7U" intelligence. In the notes, it says, specifically, that this model lacks a voice module and can only communicate using the simplistic beeps and whirrs.

The big guy outside is a BULL(UH3)) model- this is also the model you see hanging around outside various places, aggressively searching for you to take your structure gel.
From completing the game, we know that the consciousness of people (the brainscans) have been implemented into the bodies of these robots, via the toolchips/cortex chips.
(It appears those with toolchips have a much more basic functional ability. Remember the other robot around Delta? He was kinda crazy, wasn't he.)
Well, this guy, and the other BULL models use a "complex AN-5U" intelligence. Its very much similar, if not almost exactly the same (perhaps less advanced, even) than the cutie little K8-bot's (as well as TOPA ((m-UH0) if you care to know) AN-7U intelligence.

TL;DR, the little cutie-bot was every bit as intelligent and human as the other talking robot- he was even moreso aware. That is what the schematics were hinting at. If you kill the talking robot, the little guy will shy away from you and makes upsetting/panicked beeping noises, and then afterwards, refuses to come near you again and will not let you come close to it, either.

This game ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up, man.

[GeoG85]

I loved little robo-bro, I would never hurt him. :(

[Vampire]

The choices are ♥♥♥♥. Either murder your little robot buddy who is very intelligent, just can't talk. Think R2-D2. You are murdering R2-D2.

The other option is to murder the talking robot who is a brain scan, but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. So you are essentially killing C-3P0 right in front of R2D2.