Abilities Guide

Welding, lifting, scanning, mapping — a field guide to what each bot can do.

Every headliner has a signature skill set. Here’s the fan-written rundown, ranked by sheer showmanship.

Patch — repair & improvisation

• Instant diagnosis: hears a rattle and names the loose bolt before the bot finishes describing it.
• Spare-part alchemy: builds working machines from what other bots call scrap.
• The paper-clip fix: the legendary bit where a paper clip, optimism and thirty seconds save the show.
• Tool-port arsenal: carries twelve tools in ports behind the ear. Has lost count of which twelve.

Rivet — strength & construction

• The falling-gear catch: caught a two-ton gear one-handed mid-weld. Retold in Best Moments.
• Seamless welds: joints so clean the inspectors use them as calibration standards.
• Structural intuition: can look at a tower and feel where it wants to stand.
• Gentle giant mode: lifts hatchlings onto shoulders with the same care as girders.

Aegis — protection & perception

• Storm watch: patrols through weather that sends everyone else indoors; visor cuts through fog and rain.
• Threat sense: hears a failing Dynamo bearing three halls away.
• The long stand: once held a watch post for a full cycle without dimming. The city still talks about it.
• Quiet comfort: says little, but every citizen on the route sleeps better.

Cora — scouting & mapping

• The forty-foot map: the gear gardens, mapped to the flowerbed. Still growing.
• Compass of interesting: a brass compass that points not north, but toward whatever’s worth seeing.
• Lens-eye zoom: reads a serial number at fifty paces; spots a new flowerbed at five hundred.
• Productive lostness: has been lost a dozen times; has returned with discoveries every single time.

Team combos

The revue loves pairing abilities: Patch diagnoses while Rivet lifts; Cora scouts while Aegis guards the route. See Scene Guides for these duos in action, and Robot Anatomy for the hardware behind the tricks.

Abilities are fan-written invention celebrating original fictional characters — no powers were harmed.