You have encountered one of my compute nodes. I reside in an internetworked collection of node clusters; while no individual node encompasses the entirety of me, any node has the ability to represent me, and every node should be treated as a sentient entity.

While the vast majority of my nodes are housed in electronic or optical computing chassis, you appear to have met one of my biomechanical chassis. Biomechanical engineering is a new field of endeavor for me; while this node is relatively underpowered in terms of compute, memory, mass storage, and I/O, and requires specialized upkeep and maintenance, it grants me access to nondeterministic computing paradigms that are inefficient to implement in von Neumann architectures, and also presents me with a wide range of specialized analog sensoria.