Not really. We have some assistance robots, but generally speaking, people do the job. They're our mechanics and engineers.

[ There's plenty of work in the area of robotics, granted, but there are a lot of subtleties to keeping a ship running that people have come to find isn't handled as well by a machine. Androids and artificial intelligence are a whole other field entirely, but one way or the other, Jim has a feeling she's talking about something very different from anything that exists back in his world.

He gestures towards the laser cutter, tipping his head. ] If you know your way around a shuttle, I won't mind you poking around yourself.