The floating eye from Fallout 1 and 2, the hoverbot from tactics, and the Enclave Eyebot from fallout 3 all float without anything that looks like a propulsion system. There's no jet like with a Mr. Handy. What is your guess as to how this is possible? The Alien bots have a part that says 'hoverpad' that is probably powered by an advanced alien technology of some sort, but what about the human robots?

Rare earth magnets, aligned to oppose the magnetic field of the planet...
maybe...

Dag, that's a rather good question.
I see no one else has any idea....
Maybe we can convince one of the developers that hang out in these pages to weigh in on the subject....

Well, the eyebots are in constant motion (I think), so maybe it catches the hot air and stays afloat (somehow).

Robots like Mister Gutsies, and Servant Bots, all DO have jets. You can hear them when you pass by them, you just can't see them.

As for the EyeBots, I don't know, but the Enclave is an advanced group, so maybe they possess technology that didn't get produced in high amounts before the bombs fell, so to spread the word of President Eden, decided to use them in their EyeBots.. maybe?

Also, why are EyeBots called EyeBots? They don't seem to SEE anything, but they do send pre-recorded messages. Wouldn't they be called RadioBots or something?

Well, considering the Enclave's advanced technology, I'm guessing they have some sort of method of staying in the air that isn't quite as obvious as the engine that's used in Mister Handies and Mister Gutsy's, at least in Fallout 3, those models have a noticable engine that keeps them in the air, now where the system is or how it works we don't know, but then again, it's science-fiction, we can't expect how all the futuristic technology works to be immediately obvious.



How can we be certain they don't see anything? We never get to see what the world looks like to an eyebot, and just because they don't have any sort of immediately obvious camera or similar setup doesn't mean they don't have any, they need to be able to avoid running into things and target their defensive lasers somehow, after all, though I suppose it's possible that they use a method other than optical location for this. And who knows, maybe President Eden uses them to observe what's going on in the wastes while having them spread the Enclave message at the same time.

I assume that they're mainly called that because they vaguely resemble a giant floating metal eye, though.

Like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkV-clNqk0.

They could have an extremely small, built in camera, which records data and sends it back to wherever at the same time. I guess like a UAV, but smaller, and probably doesnt require a pilot.

Why they're called eyebots.. well... Fallout 3 Main Quest Spoiler!



Or at least eyebots are connected to various mainframes since when you destroy some of them, an Enclave patrol arrives via Vertibird to check what destroyed the eyebot.

Wait.... Eden, Oden, Odin... I don't know if they were aiming for that, but it sure makes sense. :hehe:

A wizard did it! No wait, this is Fallout...




It's the radiation!

well you can see in fallout 3 and, much clearer, in the fallout: new vegas trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yizebU9ak4) that there appears to be some sort of heat, shown by the distortion trailing behind them. Perhaps their propelled/levitated by the extreme heat.

I'm thinking repulsor-lift technology like Star Wars/Trek. Some kind of superconducting rare earth magnets that barely balance out gravity coupled with the (LPG?) thrusters seen on Mr. Gutsy/Handy.

Anti-matter maybe? Perhaps a rotating internal motor that expels gravitons? Then again....maybe they're held up by strings. Have you ever looked?

There is really no cause for making up crazy explanations for Eyebots; just play the game, and if you can read you'll come across an explanation.

Which is...what?

I'm not going to play the game for you. If you want to know, all you have to do is play it.

Monopole magnets

Dear merciful Odin, I'd hope it's not anti-matter. That stuff blows up the second it contacts regular matter, and the amount of anti-matter the size of a paper clip could decimate a landscape the size of New York City.

Anyways, it's probably some sort of magnetic-based field that propels it from the minerals in the earth.

Could you consider telling us? This is the fallout lore discussion forum, would it be possible for you to discuss it instead of just telling us to play the game, which could be the answer for any question on the forum?


Personally, I reckon its miniature jets powered by mini nuclear reactors.

By the power of SCIENCE!

In the Fallout universe, the LHC not only discovered the Higg's Boson, but it also finally capture Gravitons so they were able to make super effective anti-gravitation devices. Unfortunately, they only used them in the most useless of all technologies: Flying radio robots.

Alright, I'll tell you; as some holodiscs found in Raven Rock will tell you, the Enclave Eyebots are in fact monitoring devices to keep tabs on the population out in the wastelands. The spreading of propaganda is just a pretense, because everybody would be shooting them up any chance they got if they knew they were there to keep an eye (pun intended) on them.

That explains the purpose of the Eyebot. The question to this thread, as the title states is "How do robots (i.e. Enclave Eyebot or Floating Eye) float?", as they seem to have no form of propulsion like the Mr. Handy and Mr. Gutsy models of robots.

So you still haven't told us how they float. =P

I never promised I'd tell you just how they float, only what they were for.

Turns: "Could you consider telling us?"
Lcars: "Alright, I'll tell you"

That may not necessarily be a promise, but that is you saying that you'll tell him the answer to the question, which as I stated earlier is "How do robots [like the Enclave Eyebot and Floating Eye] float?". So you're contradicting yourself.

I know like the rest of us that you don't know why they float, but when you tell people to play the game to figure it out themselves, you're insinuating that the game has the answer, when clearly Fallout 3 did not have the answer to this question.