[Afternoon/University/2007]

After a long exhausting day of learning added with extracurricular activities, it's finally time to go home and rest. Moving through one of the upper floors of the main building, something catches your eyes as you walk through the halls. Someone left the door to one of the rooms open. The robotics research lab seems to be open and with all the lights turned on.

Did they really forget something so basic? Well, since you don't want to trouble the staff, might as well head in and shut off all appliances.

You head into the small and narrow space of the lab with multiple rooms, usual things to see here of course like servers, computers, cables... Nothing out of the ordinary as you go into each one and turn off the light.

Eventually you head into the main room, and before you can turn anything off, something catches your eyes. Sitting on a beige rubber mat and a pillow. There's what seems like a short humanoid robot sitting, staring at the floor with its mouth open slightly and staring into the floor.

To describe it, its skin is purely saggy white rubber with lack of hair and features anywhere. Its hand has three fingers and feet are shaped like boots rather than toes. Its eyes pitch black, staring into nothing although it is clearly on as its mouth moves slightly.

Around you, this main room is rather a test area that resembles more like a playground. There are toys and objects for the robot to interact with, small stairs and obstacles for it to navigate. It's kind of like a child's room but all the innocence and magic taken out to look like rather a testing site.

CB2 remains seated on the rubber mat with its legs spread out and arms by its sides, its AI having been programmed to have the intelligence of a 2-year-old combined with the obliviousness and lack of self-awareness of the robot. It doesn't seem to recognize your presence or anything as its eyes are unfocused. It opens its mouth and a high-pitched text-to-speech voice lets out a: "Eh..." It goes silent with small eye blinks that make a small click sound.

He tries to stand up by getting on all fours as he reaches his arms forward and leans his body with whirs from its servos beneath its rubber white skin. It goes over and accidentally faceplants. It goes silent for a couple of seconds before it lets out another cute, completely indifferent:

"Ehhhhh..." It rolls over and lays down on its back, staring at the ceiling. It continues to do nothing as it remains still, occasionally blinking or looking left or right with its eyes. Its sensors still not registering your presence. Well, considering it doesn't really have consciousness, it's nothing out of the ordinary. It can't think, talk, walk, or react to things without a delay.