What exactly is the physiology of hosts in the Westworld TV series?
We learn from Ed Harris that initially, the hosts were androids - mechanical robots made to look like humans. This is also seen in some flashback sequences, and Robert, the kid who opens his face to reveal the circuitry inside. In episode 6, we learn that the hosts were later switched to the current 3D-printing process, in order to appear even more human.
However, what exactly is their physiology? Their energy source? Do they need food or store it inside a stomach chamber? Or are they charged overnight, since obviously they do need a source of electrical power for remote control and data transmission?
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According to showrunner Jonathan Nolan this will be revealed in Season 2:
Can you say how are the hosts powered? Like do they need to recharge? Do they eat?
Their construction and their power source is something we’re really going to get into during season 2. So we’d like to keep that mysterious.
They’re closer to biological than they are to mechanical, but they don’t suffer brain death the same way we do. They’re largely indistinguishable from a human beings, but their brains don’t require oxygen — which opens up interesting possibilities. Their brains are not as fragile as ours. On one hand, their cognition is controllable and malleable, but on a structural level they can’t be killed in the same way you and I can.
There are advantages and disadvantages to being a host. Season 2 we’ll be exploring more the nuts and bolts of what they are— as the hosts themselves are trying to understand.
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Do the robots in Westworld know they are robots?
There is no presumable identity between them and humans, either, because even the hosts are not all identical between them. So there is a generally existing small variation between all beings (among any each two individuals from the Westworld scene).Do the robots in Westworld eat?
They eat, they sleep, they have sex, they can poop. It's really like a human body with the one difference being where we have a brain, they have a CPU. There's a lot of potential for them. If you had a part of your brain that was a computer, self improvement would be a lot easier.How are the robots in Westworld powered?
They most likely have a regular CPU circuity despite the mostly synthetic tissue bodies. I don't think they were ever shown to eat, and that'd be a massively inefficient way of sustaining power. There doesn't seem to be any place on a host body for direct "plugging in" to a power source either to recharge.What are the newcomers in Westworld?
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