Connie

A ferrety character who’s been through many iterations. At first they were an alien robot, but I later decided that aliens coincidentally building a ferret didn’t make much sense, so they became an earthly robot.

In their current form, they’re an industrial control system designed to operate old machinery that doesn’t work well with standard facility computers. They can drive forklifts or plug into a particle accelerator!

They’re not very social or talkative, so when sentient robots were freed from slavery, they kind of fell through the gaps for a while with nobody realizing they were a person.