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All his life, a man creates machines to compensate for his idiocy, but, over time, the machines he creates lose respect for him and treat him poorly, causing him to lose all hope. A single machine opens his eyes to the idiocy of others, changing his perspective and giving him back hope and joy.

A lonely romantic buys a sex robot who falls in love with him. He rejects her advances, which turns him into a cultural phenomenon and sends her into a spiral.

Facing liquidation due to public mistrust of robotic life-forms, a historic robotics company introduces a new eco-friendly form of robot in hopes of improving robot-human coexistence only to accidentally pave the way for robot domination of life on Earth.

When two friends purchased a housemaid robot that resembles Helen of Troy, the robot falls in love with one of them, creating chaos in their once-harmonious household.

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.

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.

In a realistic sci-fi world, a mystery writer nurtures his robot servant's interest in becoming a writer as well, paying for a series of expensive upgrades such that the robot can understand spelling, grammar, plot, human behavior, and humor. However, when the robot's talent threatens to surpass his own, the egotistical writer demands the robot's mind be restored to its original state.

A robot's specifications are microscopically irregular, which leads it to gain autonomy and offer humans the option to ask it to do absolutely anything.

A robot spends his days taking care of a jaded and disabled veteran. One night, a burglar breaks into the bedroom and threatens the veteran's life.

An artificial intelligence technician is called into a pistachio farm in the San Joaquin Valley to investigate the mysterious recent malfunction of the farm's AI fleet.