Endoskeleton
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The endoskeleton is the internal support structure of an animal, human, or cyborg.
Skynet's most popular endoskeletal cyborg was its Series 800 terminator, which used a metallic endoskeleton covered with living tissue. For years Skynet tried to imitate the human body in structure, functionality and looks on its robots so that it could build a perfect Infiltrator. The 800 Series was a breakthrough in developing terminators that were similar to humans.
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Originally, terminators were purely robotic and weren't covered with living tissue. Starting with the Series 600, Skynet tried to cover the titanium alloy endoskeleton with rubber, which looked fake and was easy to spot. Skynet discovered a method that allowed them to grow living tissue over the endoskeleton, making the new terminators almost impossible to spot.
Later and more advanced endoskeletons were manufactured with coltan. [1] Skynet also found out it was extremely difficult to send pure metal back in time using time displacement equipment, but was able to overcome this by covering the terminators with living tissue.
Skynet has experimented with terminator models that don't have endoskeletons: the Series 1000 was made entirely of mimetic polyalloy, allowing it much more flexibility of motion.
Skynet combined an endoskeleton with mimetic polyalloy in its T-X model. The endoskeleton allowed the T-X Series to be fitted with onboard weapons systems -- the first Infiltrator class to house advanced weaponry -- each located within a reconfigurable arm, underneath the mimetic polyalloy outer sheath. The sheath made it easier for the T-X to pose as more than one human (since the subjects targeted for termination might be able to notice a non-mimetic pollyalloy terminator because of its specific model template. The sheath also couldn't be 'injured' like T-800 living flesh, which meant that the T-X could still pose as a human even after taking damage that would have marred the flesh covering of a more primitive terminator. Within its vast internal arsenal, the T-X possessed many different weapons and tools for different missions.
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- The opposite of an endoskeleton is called an exoskeleton: an external skeleton built on the outside to protect the body. Insects and spiders both use exoskeletons.
