I don’t know if this is a good suggestion but there should be an option to make or put the robot corpses found to use?
Sort of like a hardcore mode that instead of doing the saving and when you die reloading bit, instead you can craft two machines. One allows you to craft or use old robot corpses, and the other allows you to basically make a backup version of your character that upon death you go into, so you basically have to retake your old stuff and ship. Someone is probably wondering how would you retake your stuff without a ship? How about a raft or a similar backup smaller ship, that you can use? Just an idea, but I thought it would be cool as I thought that was originally what the saving machines were going to do.