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Liam spoke on this in a reddit AMA:
Nah, that’s a valid question, lolol. To be 100% honest, it's mooooostly 99% a case of "don't think about it - just watch the funny robots be funny," buuuut in the interest of not copping out, haha - If you’re human, obvs if some of your drones break down or get crushed by your other heavy machinery, you’ll need to build more to keep up your epic 10/10 mining operation. We see in the intro there’s a lil conveyor belt/assembly line thingy for assembling new drones on Copper 9 (the name of the exoplanet they’re on - super difficult to see that detail in the pilot though, lol). Once the “Great Yeetening” occurred killing all the humans, the WDs messed with the machine to construct not fully formed WDs ready to lift pickaxes and smile at camera, but instead just little glorified balls of their base neural network - untrained idiots just like human children. If you’re a drone parent ready for a crappy little toaster of your own, you probably copy some of your code onto like . . . a heccin USB and plug some of that ish into the machine as a base network, but otherwise it’s all nurture and learning from there. This is mostly what caused the WDs to branch out in personality types once the humans on Copper 9 decided to take a forever nap, why they have to go to heccin robo-school to re-learn basic stuff, and why you get development “phases” like, for example, learning enough about the world to finally question it and becoming and edgelord teen, lol, but not quite old enough to know how to carry yourself or take things in stride XD In terms of actual models, there are only two: the little baby pills (you wouldn't want a literal mental toddler in charge of a body with limbs and full agency that counts as heavy machinery, lol), then you'd transfer that AI to the full WD body whenever you've grown to be less of an idiot!
Tl:dr: if you’ve ever watched “Robots” (2005) . . . ya know . . . that XD
