Ponco

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Ponco V · T · F
Occupation	Robot
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	2020 or earlier
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	At least 7* (age at debut)
Eye color	N/A
Hair color	N/A
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	3'9"; 115 cm
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	Metis Cykes (Inventor/"mother"; deceased) Athena Cykes ("Sister")
Affiliates	Aura Blackquill (Inventor) Clonco (Fellow robot/"brother")
Aliases/nicknames
Ms. Panko* (by Miles Edgeworth)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	ポンコ (Ponco)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	The Cosmic Turnabout
Musical theme	"Lively People"

Ponco, standing for Psychological Observation and Navigation Companion, is a robot working at a space station. Its face bears a similarity with Athena Cykes's Widget.

Abilities

Like the other "Robots with Hearts", Ponco has the ability to engage in conversations with people, although her ability to communicate is limited to what she's been programmed with. This means that she sees things with her limited knowledge of what's happening. For example, she can mistake a person attacking someone for giving them a hug. She also can express basic emotions, as indicated by her "face" and how she feels happy upon helping people.

Like the other robots, Ponco has a number of identification recognition abilities. These include facial recognition, ID scanning and a heartbeat detector.

Witnessing a "hug"

On October 7 2020, Ponco went to the Robotics Lab to recharge, where she "saw" who she detected as being Dr. Metis Cykes and Athena Cykes. In reality, Dr. Cykes had been murdered, and was on the floor with her face covered by a handkerchief. Wearing Dr. Cykes coat with her ID tag on it,and using a mask to cover his face, the murderer managed to trick Ponco's recognition systems into believing that he was Dr. Cykes.

In the lab, Ponco witnessed the young Cykes stabbing her mother's killer with a knife, which due to her limited understanding she interpreted as a hug.

Afterwards, Cykes asked Ponco to move her mother's body to the operating table so that she could "fix" her.

An Important Witness

Ponco ended up becoming a witness in the retrial of the UR-1 Incident, in which Cykes was accused of killing her mother.

Her testimony, and information of her recognition systems, helped Phoenix Wright to prove Cykes's innocence.

Notes

• Ponco is the third known non-human witness to give testimony in court chronologically. Canonically, she's the second, with Orla the Whale giving testimony in Turnabout Reclaimed.

Development

Ponco's mugshot.

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