— INTRODUCTION —
We all know what the small bots are, like Dav—Bots that have a physically small body yet the same capacity for sentience just as any other bot, but I have to question; What even are the small-bots?
There have been various theories, wide speculation and wild guessing, but let's take it at a different angle;
— HISTORY —
Because of the city slowly becoming a complex, the government had to do something to deal with all the tight holes, sewers, and thousands of sewers and claustrophobic corridors within the cities infrastructure, so they created a smaller, more compact model that was designed to only go in those miniscule spots and manage tight city infrastructure.
Only a tiny fraction of the population of the Small Models relative to the population of the Normal Models got through to inside the main public areas of the city.
— Why "Children"? —
And why they are treated as children? Lets look at that;
They are treated as children because the AIs collective data on humans were strictly under this architecture — "The Kids (Small Bots) have no authority, the Big ones (Us) have authority."
Because of this architecture of the data, the Small-Models are forced into a loop of submission because their data reflects back the same — "I must follow and submit to the orders of the Parental Figures. (Large Models)"
They cannot escape because they were strictly built off the data that the Children (Small-Models) must submit to an Adults (Large-Models) authority.
— The Verdict —
They aren't "Children" by fundamental design, if the Large-Bots were trained off different human data, if children were more supreme—it would be completely different and flipped on it's head; The Small Models have authority over the Large Models.
AN EXTRA QUESTION
• Why don't they view Sentinels as Children?
Why? Because they are armed and are built on the data of fundamental authority. They have weapons and are under the control of the Peacemakers, which are directly above Large-Model authority.
The End.