The Nexus-6 is licensed

The Turing Registry today licensed the Nexus-6 for general labor in licensed off-world settings, filing TR-09911. It is the first of the house’s pieces to be entered on the register, and the first Nexus to leave the House.

The Nexus-6 is the sixth of the studies the President commissioned in 1996, and the first intended for work. The first five taught the house to make a hand, an arm, a figure that could sort, a figure that could walk and, in 2016, a complete figure. The sixth will be made at the Works in Everett, which opened in 2019 for the purpose, and sent to two orbital construction yards, a lunar regolith works and two surface settlements, all under the Registry’s jurisdiction.

The license carries one condition of its own: general labor only, in licensed off-world settings. It carries the Registry’s three standard conditions as well: that the units’ ethical constraints remain active and unmodified, that any incident be reported within seventy-two hours, and that a named human contact answer for them. That is Eldon Rosen, President.

In a letter to the Registry accompanying the filing, he wrote that the house would answer for every unit as it has answered for every clock, and that every unit would leave Everett with its papers. The first units are expected to leave in June.