When Industrial Automation released the ASP series, it was attempting to bring the thrill of owning a droid to the average citizen (without the high price associated with such ownership). This made the ASP a bit feeble in functionality; its limited intelligence allowed for the simplest tasks (such as cleaning, loading, operating simple machinery) and very little else.
Despite its rather lackluster performance, the ASP has been one of the company's more successful lines. Consumers soon discovered the ease in upgrading the ASP. Many owners have installed more efficient logic processors, like the AA-1 Verbobrain, and upgraded the ASP's limited speech capability with a more advanced vocabulator. Seldom will a "stock" ASP be encountered, unless it is on the showroom floor. |