The Flathead is an experimental military grade unit for surveillance and reconnaissance missions, manufactured by Militech. As described by Maelstrom gang member Dum Dum, it is state-of-the-art, coming without a standard port and with titanium-fiber actuators. It has dynamic camouflage armor and motor impulses rivaling that of the human nervous system. When demonstrating it, Dum Dum remotely pilots the spider-like bot around the room, having it scale walls.
Normally, the robot would be controlled by Militech software, but because the Maelstrom hijacked this specific robot from a transport, they had to replace the software with an alternative version by Raven Microcybernetics and placed it on a control shard. Dum Dum mention that if they had left the software intact, it would automatically reconnect to the Militech network and expose their location.[1]
The Flathead was intended to be used as a companion for Techies, but as them and Netrunners have many overlapping abilities they were combined into one skill tree.