You’ll Never Have a Robot Best Friend
Stuck between the expensive toys we don’t want and companions they’re still not
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4 min readApr 3, 2022
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I gently pulled the decaying Pleo down off a top shelf in my office.
The once energetic robot toy hadn’t been touched in years. Its battery depleted and rubber skin frayed and split. Still a cute simulacrum of what might be best described as…