Just finished Bambinata's story and I'm not sure if I understood everything right.
From what I got. she was a Kurono experiment part of multiple doll-like mechanoids, with the goal of understand how Inver-Devices work. Her old name used to be Doris. But whatever they did to her there fucked her ability to store and recount memories, creating amnesia episodes. Kurono creates some special memory chip that needs maintenance every now and then in order keep some of her memories. Also something about her Inver-Device not working as intended, creating potential deviation.
One day she gets adopted by Vanessa's family who seem to manage this experiment. Vanessa rebels against the family's wishes and decides to be part of the military, drafting Bambinata by force as some sort of petty revenge against her parents for what they did in the past, even if their actions were for her well being at the end of the day. Her father does the selfish thing of keeping their technology a secret from the Parliament's Science Council so he forcefully removes Bambinata's special memory chip during maintenance despite the potential consequences on Bambi's well being.
Asimov rebuilds Bambinata by replacing Kurono's stuff with his own, manages to create something similar to the memory chip she had before but the memories seem to get archived into her subconscious where nobody can reach, so her amnesia presists. Her Inver-Device still creates deviation. And the forced removing of the chip by Vanessa's dad fucked with her M.I.N.D., creating more deviation. Asimov partially mends this by creating a special limited module for Bambi to access for basic information that she cannot forget no matter what amnesia episodes she has.
In present time, Bambinata, Vera and Vanessa are sent to investigate the place where the experiment first took place without telling them about it. Bambinata gets kidnapped by Madorea who was the first caretaker during the experiment, now some weird half corrupted half Ascendant who can infuse things with the virus, who is still acting upon its preset programming. Can't fully get who Dottie was other than another experiment like Bambi who didn't qualify to be sent out. The virus seems to have effects on her subconscious, awakening a few of her archived memories for a brief moment.
On another note, if Bambinata is a full mechanoid does that mean she has a chance to awaken like other Church of Machina members but her amnesia won't let her develop? Unless I misinterpreted it and she was a human named Doris turned into a construct.