Turing Boilerplate

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An Axil Industries dual quantum-classical computer designed for optimally programming and/or bugfixing androids, showing an empty port for a Turing Boilerplate flash drive

A Turing Boilerplate is a term used to refer to the basic behavioural software coded into all androids, robots and drones which allow them to effectively communicate with humans in a manner indistinguishable to that of a human; in other words, a robot's broad social skills. A Turing Boilerplate is typically coded to be highly modular and compatible with custom operating systems, especially those of Androids, which synchronises a robot's boilerplate with its other functions of motor skills, memory and logic.

The term is named after Alan Turing, the highly influential pioneer of theoretical computer science and so-called father of modern computing, being named particularly after his Turing Test.