Eyebot (Fallout 3)

Enclave eyebots are a type of robot found in the Capital Wasteland in 2277.

Specifications
Eyebots are spherical robots, slightly larger than the human head, with a loudspeaker and electrical zapper on the front and several long antennas protruding from its top and back. They are used by the Enclave on the East Coast to broadcast Enclave propaganda, presidential speeches and patriotic marching music to the people of the Capital Wasteland in the form of their own radio station.

Gameplay attributes
Eyebots are hardly strong opponents and the fact that they are friendly, and will attack enemies that engage the player or other wastelanders, means that they are more beneficial than anything else. However, once the player finishes the quest The Waters of Life, or engages them in combat, they may pose a threat; especially in the former case where they will turn hostile if any nearby Enclave patrols are under attack.

The eyebot is armed with a zapper, almost equal in strength to a laser pistol. It is extremely accurate with this weapon and will rarely miss, even over considerable distances. While not a very damaging opponent, the eyebot's mobility, small size and high accuracy can make it a threat if encountered by a low level player character. Fortunately, they are the most fragile robot in the game and are easily destroyed, even with bare fists. Eyebots don't seem to have a uniform level of strength, as some are killed by weak creatures like mole rats, while other pose a challenge to much stronger characters, such as raiders. When killed, an eyebot will explode, causing minor damage to anything nearby.

Eyebot
The normal eyebot encountered in the wastes is hardly a threat, except to very low level players: they have a weapon similar to the AEP7 laser pistol and the least health of all the robots in the game.

Eyebots can be easily identified at a distance as they emit a small buzzing sound from flying and constantly broadcast Enclave Radio, which consists of patriotic songs and John Henry Eden's speeches.

Appearances
Eyebots appear only in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes
In the book The Art of Fallout 3, an artist mentions that the eyebot was designed after the Sputnik-era satellites, probably the Sputnik 1, an artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.