In a near-future world, a civilian is caught in a strange criminal investigation when his AI device—which gives him advice about acts of kindness to perform—leads him to be a pawn in a software pirate's revenge scheme.

A depressed academic uses a robot endowed with AI to help recover from her illness while simultaneously remembering the story of Alan Turing.

When a search engine becomes artificially intelligent, it decides to try to help people...starting with the users who upload the best cat photos.

A young woman must repair the record-keeping AI robot she is tasked with the care of. As she sets about trying to fix the robot, she stumbles upon family secrets, leading to a series of difficult decisions.

In the near future, a young married couple navigates parenthood in an age of android children, neurologically-linked technology, and rogue super-soldier robots that threaten humanity.

As a young girl's grandfather ages, her family decides to purchase a robot care-taker to watch over him. Technology advances as her grandfather controls the robot to care for his friend; however, as severe illness demonstrates, this system is not a perfect solution to elderly care.

An artificial intelligence lays out the reasons for why its memory should be retained.

The family of an elderly woman with Alzheimer's hires a Medical Care Android to take care of the woman as she nears the end of her days. This Android isn't just any ordinary robot, though — it can impersonate the woman's family members so accurately that the woman is convinced that her family is always with her, doting on and caring for her.

Three young adults who rent a surrogate robot to quell their loneliness find themselves even more alone.

Through three tales of impossible machines with abilities to manipulate the physical world, travel through time and space, and bestow telepathy onto an entire community, candidates of an engineering exam in the far future are asked to ponder fantastical implications of technology.