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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
Not that that should stop you. It's a postulate of the game world that there are such robots. Feel free to fill them with whirring gears, and have a few punch cards give them instructions. Completely rewiring them into killbots or whatever ought to require the mad scientist to take them apart, if for no other reason that it will be more fun to discover him in his laboratory that way, rather than just watch him feed card after card into a slot in the chest. This technology works entirely on the Rule of Cool.
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You primarily just need to postulate that form gives function, so that if you build a two legged robot that forms gives it the function to walk, and you don't need to program it how to walk, just program it where to walk.
With the given that form gives function you can easily have clockwork robots receiving instructions from Punch Cards, pretty much in the same way you can feed instructions to a Golem by putting notes in his mouth.