Help building robot detector

[rburroughs69]

The campaign that we are running has a lot of robots in it posing as people. I am trying to build a device that I can use to both detect if the enemy is a robot, and to disable them as well. My character is a lot like Batman and my alter ego owns/runs a high tech computer company that specializes in advance AI equipment. What would be the best way to build what I am looking for?

[Snarf]

Is this campaign realistic or rubber scienceish?

[rburroughs69]

It is realistic. Some of the enemies we have fought have been robots of the true enemies. Just looking for something to build to help out during the remainer of the campaign, as I have a feeling I have not seen the last of them.

[Zed-F]

You could build a devide with detect machine mind (probably a 3 point detect, since detect minds is a 5-point detect) and buy up any advantages you wanted on the detect. As for disabling them, depends on how you want to do it. My default suggestion would be a drain technology attack, but there's lots of options.

[prestidigitator]

Disables them at the same time? Then this becomes really easy. Just define an attack that works Only Against Robots (you will have to decide how much of a disadvantage this is, based on the frequency of robots; if they are very common, it may even be a -0). Now you can attack everyone with it, and anyone who is affected is a robot (this use, in itself, might make the above Limitation a -0). Free detect. ;)

[lemming]

Well, in the 6 Million Dollar Man, he used a pencil to detect the fembots. :D