This is a small little guide for anyone confused on some of the features of robots:


—— Robot Eating Habits ——-
Their primary diets consist of chemfuel, uranium, and fuel nodes. Fuel nodes can be made at a machining bench with some chemfuel and a bit of steel - it offers a small mood buff and fully charges whoever consumes it.
(Be sure to allow every diet filter on a diet def for your robots, if say “allow vegetarian” is off then they will not be allowed to eat their fuel.)


—— Surgery on Robots ——
For “surgery” you will need a pawn assigned to doctoring (medical skill does not matter), with level +6 crafting, and a minimum of two components. Though only certain bionics can be installed on a robots, basically if it’s fleshy or needs flesh it can’t be installed. Things like fleshcrafted limbs obviously cannot be installed.


—— Making Robots ——
If you want to make a robot you need a mech-casket, which can be bought from exotic/pirate orbital traders very rarely. Then you’ll need the research to make the robots, and then you’ll need to follow the recipe listed in the casket to create your very own robot uprising.