Titan Project CX Unit 4781276695-B aka "Camerahead" is an ancient Martian android sent to Saturn's moon Titan to assist in construction of the original Titan Station starport more than 200 years ago. Standing seven-and-a-half feet tall, the Titan Project CX line was designed for autonomous self-directed work in a remote environment and are primarily responsible for constructing the habitable station that allowed for Titan Garden's central dome to be constructed by Terran and Neptunian workers. With ten fingers across four arms, CX Units were equipped to handle a wide variety of tools, using the torque of their claw arms, the precision of their hand arms or the strength of both arms in tandem to complete the various tasks needed in construction of a remote space station. The CX Units' feet are designed with a flexible long-toe configuration that allows them to maintain balance and grip while navigating rocky, uneven terrain. They are built with minimal moving parts to get maximum needed range of motion out of the fewest possible breakdown points to ensure they're able to get the most work done with the least amount of downtime in an environment with little to no mechanical assistance available. Their standard-range and macro-lens cameras are equipped with basic, thermal and night-vision filters, the active mode indicated by the diode box attached to their head units. Speech emulation was omitted from the project; CX Units communicate to each other through very dense modem-like screeches, allowing them to maintain information-rich communication lines with other units at all times. The Titan Project CX line was built for hard, thankless work.
It has been said that the Titan Project is responsible for many of the Sol system's android creation regulations, as they were the earliest autonomous intelligent machines built and sent to another planet. As the story goes, two hundred years ago Martian interests set about trying to build an outpost on the uninhabited world of Titan, as a stepping stone towards connecting with the outer planets. They ran into the logistical problem of how to manage the complex task of station construction on a world that does not already have life-sustaining provisions available- artificial intelligence had not been developed yet and work robots require tremendous care and babysitting to perform the complex long-term labor needed to build a station from nothing, and so the Titan Project Autonomous Construction Unit was developed. In the century to follow, the core design practices behind the Titan Project CX Unit's creation would be banned throughout the Sol system.
The creation of the CX Unit in an age before artificial sentience is more easily understood in the context of Martian physiology. Martian humanoids are distinct from their Inner Belt neighbors in that they have redundant organs and adaptable metabolic systems that allow them to survive inhospitable conditions on minimal food sources. If robots can't function long-term without Martian babysitters and those Martians could not survive long-term until the station was built, the solution was to put the Martians inside the robots; the CX Unit's chassis is essentially a heavily-armored life-support case housing a disembodied Martian brain. The volunteer's nervous system is maintained and distributed throughout the CX unit's body through a series of thick black cladded hoses, allowing the central brain to operate the unit's many limbs. Two large cases on its back house the life-support systems needed to keep the brain alive, allowing one to be detached and replaced at a time. The unit's neck can be fully retracted into its central housing, its abdominal supports can be compressed and its legs can fold up, minimizing its body size to allow as many CX units to be transported to Titan as possible. As a Martian solution this allows the unit's brain to survive the very long times between supply deliveries, delivering fresh life-support packs with each shipment of raw materials in a time before warp drives. It was a calculated risk by all parties but it ultimately worked, allowing Titan Garden to be created. The practice of putting living brains into robot bodies has since been outlawed, and Camerahead is a major reason why.
Camerahead is believed to be the last living CX Unit, now clocking over two centuries old. Some say it haunts the grounds outside Titan Garden, while others have reported seeing it inside the station itself, but all encounters with the unit report it being very territorial and very aggressive towards perceived threats to its baby, the station itself. Sightings are few but frequent enough that it's become an urban legend, with parents warning their children if they misbehave Camerahead will Get Them. Stories go that Camerahead took so much pride in its work on Titan Station that the influx of rogues and villains, smugglers and thieves who would move in from all corners of the system to make Titan their home posed an existential threat to the very thing Camerahead gave up its living body to construct. That through all its toiling in isolation Titan Garden did not become the virtuous pillar of the galaxy the Martians sold the project as drove it completely bonkers, and so it haunts Titan like a vengeful, protective ghost. It knows every nook and cranny of the station, it was there when the deep wells beneath the station were dug and it can compress its body and skitter through tight spaces on its four mechanical arms, allowing it to elude capture and seemingly emerge anywhere at any time. Its thick armor plating protect it from physical damage, and its organic core protects it from being disabled with electromagnetic weaponry. They say if you've been bad it will find you and squeeze out your blood to feed its life-support systems, and that is how its lived for so long. They say Camerahead can't be reasoned with, and if you see its lights turn red and hear its modem screech, the only thing you can do is run.
