Adaptive Reconfiguration System

An adaptive reconfiguration system (ARS) is an extremely advanced "smart" engineering workbench that allows changes to be made to complex systems without specific knowledge of their underlying principles of operation. They use forcefields to suspend the work item and neutron bombardment to scan it, then feed that data into a non-sapient machine learning algorithm with designated parameters which generates an execution model for nanobots to perform the manipulation. An ARS can be seen as a more advanced version of a nanolathe.

Applications

While adaptive reconfiguration systems are highly effective in what they do, they are extremely intricate and expensive as well as falling under the regulation of interstellar security laws due to their potential in manufacturing weapons or prohibited computing technology. This often means they are only accessible to organisations with sufficient funding and the means to comply with these regulations.

ARS machines are often used in laboratories of large megacorporations such as Metatron and Paradigm. They are also present at a number of prominent hospitals across the Solar System, where they are used to repair synthetics that have suffered catastrophic system damage.

History

Adaptive reconfiguration systems were first developed by CORE Group in the 2130s, after several breakthroughs in the field of nanotechnology. Initially, only a few were made, due to the difficulty in bridging the gap between non-sapient algorithms and control over the nanobots. However, large amounts of funding from the industrial sector increased adoption and quickly ARS benches became ubiquitous in almost every high-end laboratory and machine shop.