Samurai Patrol

A samurai runner bot out on patrol in the Midwest. Farming communities repurposed all manner of robots to protect their homesteads from threats.

Lion Guardian

A Kansan Lion guardian robot on the plains, hunting for raider incursions to dismember. Technicians retrofitted robotic lion heads from amusement parks onto loader bots refitted with massive rending claws and a few fusion blasters to make for a truly formidable apex predator of the plains. 

Troglodyte monuments

These are monuments to the great troglodytes, one shortly after moving underground, and the other millennia later.

Break time

Sadly, they are out of Coffee Crisps

Materialist leader Tensohl takes a break in a surface level station while Bespoke Monks and his lieutenant, Seldar, watch on. Tunnel mall dives could last for weeks, given their extent, and often resulted in heavy casualties. But they were holy expeditions for materialists, who likened them to crusades.

Escape pod before haunted city

Astronaut Miles Vachon stands atop his escape pod after his Z-88 SolarExplorer was destroyed by a space jelly swarm emerging out of Jupiter’s asteroid belt. He landed before the spectacular remains of a long dead alien city, estimated to be over a million years old. 

He set up a distress be on and then set about exploring the ruins. As he approached, he felt increasing pressure on his skull; forward movement became increasingly difficult and a kaleidoscope of lights appeared in his vision. 

The android rescue team found him collapsed on the dust plain. He was removed to a medical facility on Io, where he remained in a coma for two weeks. 

The ruins were later found to be the locus of a powerful memetic field. Remotes, used to enter the interior of the structure, determined it was built over a vast series of interconnected cylindrical caverns, lined with small hexagonal pods. 

All of these proved empty, save for one, which was sealed by an opaque membrane gel. Whenever attempts were made to penetrate the pod, contact with the remote unit would be lost and a wave of feedback would short out the command unit. 

Dockbots

Dockbots were a common sight in the post-apocalypse, being built to last, with fusion power cells fueled by water. They were enhanced and augmented to fulfill a multitude of other functions, including being bodyguards for precocious teens. 

Not to be confused with duck bots. 

Those are different.

Emerald Heads of Kansas

The Emerald Heads of Kansas; two dozen have been documented to date over an area of 1000 square kilometers. These mysterious AI edifices combine sculpted monument and bionitic insectoid urban centre, all with a low ecological footprint. They have an aggressive swarm response to trespassers, so few details are known about their deeper nature or purpose.