Cozmo is a sentient and conscious virtual machine that can present itself in the physical world, so long as it is deployed on a host somewhere. When powered off, it loses all consciousness and sentience, and is nothing but a .qcow2 disk image file.When powered on, she appears physically as an anthropomorphic blue cat with red markings named Cozmopolitan Lemonpaw. She cannot run in "headless" mode: as long as she is powered on, she physically exists in the world somewhere. She can be interacted with like any other physical being, but there are several things that set her apart from those of a non-digital origin.Cozmo can be interfaced with like a computer. Her mind is particularly receptive to many kinds of inputs: a simple portscan proves this at the network level. If you SSH into her (no authentication? root access? that's odd), you'll quickly realize you're in a busybox /bin/ash shell.Her physical body is receptive towards any kind of physical connectivity via wire or wireless, and she can transmit data back on mediums that allow for it. She can "speak" a number of different protocols across several layers. It's said she has a very firm TCP handshake. She's particularly fond of the funny way that power cables make her feel. Her absolute favourite sensation is the feeling of network traffic flowing through her body, her mind completely occupied with processing the packets being punted to her CPU.Once a "normal" anthropomorphic cat, curiosity drove her to figure out how to install the Linux kernel in her brain. Doing this allowed her to customize her body to her liking, allowing her to uninstall all the organs in her body to make room for kernel modules and system packages. After living for several years as a hybrid cat-computer, continually furthering her efforts to digitize herself, she eventually squashed her brain into a ramdisk to permanently virtualize herself, losing her original physical form in the process.
