The P. R. O. C. U. [Personality Reprogramming Optical Control Unit] was designed by Team Rocket Executive Eris Radwell in 1984FD as means to remove humans of their compassion and free will while amplifying their anger and hatred - effectively creating a breed of mindless fighting drones. It achieves this by applying adjustments to the subject's Sympathetic Nervous System and Cerebral Cortex and it has since been tailored to accomplish a variety of tasks, from memory wiping to complete personality overhaul.

Research into the Team Rocket database has shown data from the estranged Cipher Network's Shadow Pokémon project was used in the construction of the P.R.O.C.U.

The device has claimed its fair share of victims in the past, primarily as a result of overwrite errors where even the subject's Autonomic Nervous System was compromised.

Research

P.R.O.C.U 1.0 suffered its drawbacks because it failed to seal away emotions properly. Even when a test subject's identity and memories were robbed from them, and even when their personality itself was gone, their capacity to experience emotion remained, making them able to retain their free will and create a new personality from scratch. Therefore, in order to perfect the P.R.O.C.U, the next logical stage was to seal that capacity for emotion.

Since love is one of the strongest of emotions, research into parts of the mind related to love was undertaken by Dr. Namba.