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The Bots are supporting antagonists of the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections. They are the programs created by The Analyst, replacing the Agents as the rebooted and redesigned version of the Matrix.
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Replacing the Agents in a new Matrix[]
The Analyst's new Matrix is based more on manipulating the humans inside on that on direct, blunt control - and particularly through use of digital media permeating society, thus making it more easy to control (with iPhones, social media, etc.) Embodying this shift in strategy, Bots are camouflaged as normal humans in the Matrix, living alongside the coppertop humans. There are so many thousands of disguised Bots in the new Matrix that there are essentially always a few in most public locations (and even private locations such as individual businesses), making it all the more easy to spy on the real humans in the simulation. Some Bots, called handlers, are assigned to spy on and manipulate specific people - preserving much more subtle control by acting as friends and even family members.
Bots replaced Agents in a similar manner Agents replaced the earlier Seraphim. The original guardians of the simulation in the Matrix Beta Versions, they were eventually deemed to be too strong and conspicuous, thus they were replaced with the downgraded Agents. Seraph was a former Seraphim who not only survived as an Exile, but eventually sided with the Oracle against the system. The Bots are, in effect, a continuation of this trend: individually weaker Programs who can fit in better with humans, to draw less attention to themselves before force is needed.
According to the Analyst, Bots are not only less conspicuous than Agents, but simply cheaper: he says that "cloning Agents over a coppertop" isn't as effective as just "saturating a population" with Bots interspeed everywhere. Apparently having Agents body-hop between different coppertop humans (who are themselves an energy source) simply wasn't as energy efficient.
"Swarm mode"[]
Bots operate on the strategy of permeating the new Matrix with thousands of disguised bots to spy on the humans within it. If a genuine threat appears such as members of the Resistance, all of the dormant Bots in a large area can be activated - switching to "Swarm mode" - instantly transforming into a literal army at a moment's notice, attacking in waves like a zombie horde. Activated Bots' eyes turn black, and fill with glowing green Matrix code.
Bots operate on a more "quantity over quality" strategy than Agents did, and camouflage over raw power, resulting in several trade-offs. Individually they aren't as fast or strong as Agents, nor are they as well-armed (they can't just carry around guns all the time in their false lives), but they make up for this with overwhelming numbers and the ability to hide in plain sight. Military and police Bots do carry guns, but they are less commons.
Another distinction is that Bots cannot body-hop the way that Agents did; they actually do have their own scripted lives, which they act out all the time, instead of shifting to other people. As a result, when Bots die, they die permanently, and their bodies simply dissolve into Matrix code (in contrast, bluepills who die in the Matrix, including those possessed by Agents, will leave a corpse behind when they die). It's possible that this was an intention for a safety feature after Agent Smith went rogue and modified his body-hopping ability to start copying himself like a virus, further indication that he reformatted Matrix as a whole has been reprogrammed to remove this ability.
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