Robotman wrote:
Question about those lovely "facelift" manips, is that a mechanism to open up the facial panel for viewing, or is the faceplate coming off?

Um... yes?
Seriously... take your pick. I like to leave things to the audience’s imagination/interpretation. The truth is that it’s kind of a lazy trope–the Floating Panel–that I’m aware is too often a fallback in my manips. But I’ll admit that I’m pedantic enough about these things that I do envision your basic Dyson android as having mechanisms involved with their access panels to accommodate multiple scenarios for opening, according to circumstances. Thus, your typical abdominal or paplexus panel might do the drop-in/slide-back, or lift up and out on some kind of hinge/armature, or be removed altogether. Similarly the thoracic panels might swing out barn-door style, or lift away entirely (individually or as a single unit). So... the faceplate likewise extends on a mechanism or can be removed entirely.
(It can also separate into upper/lower sections that can be removed individually... allowing the upper visage to be removed while leaving the lower–including the mouth–in place and fully functional... in case you can think of any reason why it might be beneficial for an android woman to expose her robotic nature and yet retain the full use of her mouth

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From a totally practical engineering standpoint it makes almost zero sense to build robots that way, of course. From a fetishistic standpoint, well, it’s a different story. And frankly, Elaine Dyson is as much a robot fetishist as any of us... or her clients, or her clients’ significant others. She unambiguously builds android women that way
because it’s hotter that way.
–k