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Chromed and Painted

A presenter walks onto the stage from stage-right wearing a form-fitting white t-shirt and black jeans, he waved to the cheering crowd as they roared. "Well if that wasn't a warm welcome I don't know what is, " he quipped as the cheers died off. "My name is Jordan Fox, I am the Chief Robotics Engineer at General Atomics." James took a pause to wait for the applause to break. "As you all know our latest model of android the "Mannequin" James waved his hand to gesture towards a tube in which the faceless drone was contained in that lit up with the simple motion. "Has been widely accepted as one of, if not the most advanced consumer-level robotic product in the market place" Video then began to play beside him as he continued speaking, showing the robot helping the elderly, playing with children, and even a cell phone video of one driving a car.

"Not too long after the reveal, while we were working on what was called " Figure" line of models, did we get our first wave of questions about customization." The speaker continued the video shifting to a screen filled with hashtags and tweets about robot customizations. "At first we thought a skin for your droids would be enough, but in hindsight, that was a horrible idea and I would like to apologize for that." He gestured again to a tube this time displaying a drone in skin-toned shapewear as to form breast and wide hips.

"And so we decided to ditch the "Figure" in pursuit of something completely new, Mods, " the audience thundered at the mention of modification for their robots. "But that did come with some drawbacks, like for those who had brought older Mannequins that were not compatible with the coming mods, " Two coffins were then lifted from beneath the stage as he began to explain their exchange program.

"But enough about the past. Now let just look to the future of robotics, the "Olympia", " The engineer exclaimed giving another hand single for both coffins to open. Then out stepped two "models", one male, and one female. The male sporting boxer briefs the female wore a leotard with a boob window to show cleavage. And embedded in their "skin" was a ring of white light around their right wrists. Clearly, their way to say "This is an artificial being."

"The Olympia is semi-modular." James put his hands out in front of the robots. Understanding some unspoken order, the two droids out their hands under one of the eyes and had it fall out. Giving them to the human for him to slot them into the other robot. The video now showing off the male's brown and green eyes. "You will be able to purchase official Mods from our website. As well as kits to my your own, " James then looked off stage and saw one of the higher-ups. "That be all from me today, but I will be holding another presentation later tonight to speak on customizing Olympia to fit you. And now let me bring to the stage, Alex Rodriguez, our Chief Software Engineer, " To which the crowd cried out...

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