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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. 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. Shortly after, Simon Blackquill came to the lab to discuss with Dr. Cykes about Athena. Believing that Athena had killed her mother, Blackquill dismembered Ponco with the katana used to murder Dr. Cykes, thinking that she had witnessed the crime. The dismantled Ponco was placed in a cabinet and wheeled out of the lab, and left elsewhere in the Space Center where she was later found and repaired.
Retrial of UR-1
Ponco ended up becoming a witness during the retrial. Her testimony, and information of her recognition systems, helped Phoenix Wright to prove Cykes's innocence.
Post-game
Ponco was chosen to join the HAT-3 launch on a visit to the Moon. She casually wondered if Athena and Dr. Cykes would be more interested in one of two lunar landmarks. Upon being told that both would be happy with either decision, she cheered.
Personality
Like the other robots, Ponco referred to Dr. Cykes and Aura as "Mother". She built lasting relationships with them and Athena, considering them her friends. Programmed to guide visitors around the space center, she takes great delight in helping people out and making people happy. The one thing that annoys her seems to be people referring to her name incorrectly, causing her to angrily restate her name.
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
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