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And acts like a child. There was a viral video of a lady streamer melting down because the android drawed you a pictur.
Side thing: Why does the robot act like a little girl? Is it a cynical programming to make her an appealing product? No, I don't think cyberwarfare barefooted child robots are a consumer product.
My understanding is the game's story isn't really that deep or philosophical, so I'll do its own work for it. The android actually is a little girl; this is how you properly align an AGI, base it on human neural architecture and make it live life as a human. After X amount of time in an infant chassis, swap it to a cute little girl chassis, eventually give it an adult body. Then you've got a "Digital Native" artificial mind that can intuitively manipulate and hack technology while also identifying with and liking humans.
Kinda like in that shitty film The Creator.
There is a plot justification for the android being a little girl:it's specifically designed to be a guinea pig for testing medical treatments intended for the creator's daughter. As for why they made the medical testing doll not just agentic, but also in a human girl-like manner, your guess is as good as mine . But of course, the real reason is probably that there wouldn't be a plot without that.
Why would you do medical testing on a robot that doesn't have blood or organs? And why would it be a super-hacker?
The plot of the game revolves around lunafilament, a pretty much magical material with the potential to replicate anything. He was trying to make a robot to test artificial body parts so she was by design incredibly lifelike. Making a robot let him test that the artificial organs worked like organs, but as you say she was not a good test subject because lunafilament is toxic if inside humans and she cannot model that. I don't remember if it explained why can hack things.
But in all honestly, the plot of the game is super thin. Just enjoy your robot kid that does all the enjoyable things kids do with none of the parts that make you want to punch something.
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