Okay, this was a weird situation to be put in but it was whatever now. Tim had been sent a robot, okay. Nothing bad, right? The thing that baffled him was the fact that the robot was more—humanlike in many ways. From the “skin” to the “hair”, it was almost freaky.

Tim waited hours for the robot to turn on, and after many attempts, it finally powered on. Tim was shocked and kind of surprised that the thing even turned on in the first place. He waited for the thing to do something, anything! And then it did something…

The thing immediately spoke—in a girl’s voice. Okay, so now he knew that it wasn’t a boy—he guessed. Tim waited and the robot looked at him. Okay, now he had questions, and he was gonna ask them—so he sat down and immediately started with the first question.

“Okay uh—“ But the thing cut him off. “I do not want to be identified.” It said, as if it was going to be exploited or revealed to the world. Tim stared blankly before nodding and speaking again. “Okay, uh—do you know where you came from?” It took the thing only 1.2 seconds to reply with: “No, I’m not human.” Okay, that was very obvious.

He asked another question, asking about the thing’s favorite color or favorite food, but he got the same answer. “No, I am not human.”. Was this thing trying to tell him something or just stuck on an automated message type of thing? Tim just waited until the thing stopped talking.

So he learned one thing today: The robot was not human.