Axtron 3000 "feelings"

You’re asking if I love her? Off course I do! She is everything I’ve ever wanted in a woman.

Ok, I know. I’m a robot, and I also know that she created me to love her eternally. Hence, you may be wondering how a simple robot like me can fall in love. But don’t get confused, I am NOT a simple robot. My lovely girlfriend introduced vast knowledge into my artificial brain, so I’m not simple at all.

I know almost everything about every single detail in the world, and that includes what love is. It is a mixture of chemical reactions, beauty standards, infatuations, and more. Thereby, I can tell that Alondra is a wonderful woman. She is far different than the other silly girls. She is brilliant, has a great sense of humor, loves animals (those amazing creatures), is really big-hearted, and so much more. I could be naming her virtues all day long, since she’s full of them and I have a wide amount of vocabulary. She’s just perfect.

I remember when I first woke up. I was laying naked on a table, and a charming girl was by my side. I didn’t know what to do or say. She was sleeping, and she was snoring extremely loud (I think that woke me up), but she looked cute anyway. When she realized that I was ready, she started to cry and touched me as if she didn’t believe that I was, finally, real. I just kept looking at her and her reaction. It was love at first sight.

Everything went really cool since that episode; we became the perfect couple, despite the fact that people couldn’t believe that she had a robot as her boyfriend. Her friends say that she’s out of her mind, and some of them decided to simply get away from us, leaving all those promises about being friends forever behind. I didn’t care that much, because even if she had no friends left, I would be there with her FOREVER.

A funny thing happened when she introduced me to her parents. Her mother fainted out, and her father got hiccups for about three hours. Although both of them were very nice to me at dinner, even when Mrs. Judith cried every time I kissed her daughter. Mr. Frank didn’t say a word to Alondra in the whole evening, and he secretly advised me that I should be careful with her, because she had issues with men. Anyway, that evening was really nice because after a few drinks, Mr. and Mrs. Cirio accepted me as their child’s boyfriend.

On the other hand, Alondra’s psychiatrist, Lisette Chaigneaug, hates me. That tedious woman believes that I’m just a toy, and that, eventually, she is going to get bored of me. I don’t think so. I just think she’s jealous because she has nobody to love.

We are really happy together, and I want to marry her one day. We are perfect! We were made for each other. I know she loves me, and I’m sure that the day she is ready, she’s going to ask me to be her husband. I know it; I can tell by the way she looks at me.

Taken from an interview made by Raúl Guerén,

Journalist of The New York Times

My daughter and his “boyfriend”

Honestly, I don’t know what to do with my daughter. She doesn’t listen any more.
What the heck was she thinking when she started creating this robotic-boyfriend?!

My husband and I are very concerned about this. The thing is that, actually, this robot can do almost the same things that a human does, but it isn’t normal, you know?
Yes, my lovely daughter has always been different, but this is INSANE! BEYOND BELIEF!

I talked to her psychologist the other day and she was also very worried.

I’ve tried to find an answer to her behavior, but I haven’t been able to find any.
I feel very frustrated for all this. People in the street look at her like as if she were some kind of freak or something.
I want my baby get married someday, but to a real man! Not to a man of steel.
I want to have grandchildren, you know? I want to spoil them once in a while, play with them, but, how am I going to do that if my daughter has a relationship with a ROBOT?!

Don’t you think she is crazy? That’s what I think, at least

Every day I say to her, “Please, honey, talk to me”, but it seems like she weren’t listened.

Talking to that robot is very funny,though. He is really nice, but I feel bad for him. I don’t know why, but it’s true. Sometimes it seems like a nice “person”…Yeah, I think I’m becoming crazy, as well.

I’m afraid she is never going to have a real relationship with a human being.

Her father and I pray everyday for our child so, hopefully, she recovers her sanity.

Fragment of a letter written by Alondra's mom,Valeria, to her sister

Alondra’s crush on a humanoid.

I think this case is very interesting indeed because what we are facing here is a severe case of avoidance of reality. Even when this phenomena is common among patients with Borderline Personality Disorder, this is the first case I have seen where a patient is actually able to bring his/her reality into this world in a tangible way.

Clearly, I am very impressed with Alondra’s skills on Science; to give birth to an ideal man created by a computer is something that most scientists only can dream of. But what I have to deal with here is the impact created in Alondra’s life and environment. The mere existence of this ideal man is closing more doors in the process of adaptation that Alondra should follow. Now that she has found perfection, she no longer has to make any efforts to adjust her expectations to the world she lives in, and that brings us back to the point where we started.

Moreover, this creation of hers has affected her family relations dramatically. Her sister feels threatened by the presence of what she calls “a robot” in her house. Her parents are deeply concerned about the relation their daughter has with an invented man, and of course they fear that Alondra will never be able to bind with an actual human male.

It is true that she might eventually get bored of all this perfection, and I maintain my opinion that this is only a stage, but my fear is she won’t be prepared to face the real world unless she starts now.

Taken from the personal notes of Lisette Chaigneau,

Sacred Heart’s Hospital Psychiatrist.

Falling for Axtron 3000

I think every girl (that likes guys, of course) has imagined how her ideal man would look like. Ever since I was a little girl I dreamt that someday my beloved prince would appear and realize that we were meant to each other just by looking into our eyes. The day when I turned 22 I finally realized that the fairy tale I created when I was younger might never become true. So I decided to create my own love story using technology and all my knowledge about computers and virtual reality.

So, let me tell you how I created the guy who results to be my boyfriend now. I took the idea based on Steven Spielberg’s movie: “A.I: Artificial Intelligence”. I always believed that it was possible to build a robot that could resemble a human being in almost every aspect: look like one and also behave like a human. Therefore, I first made a draft of my ideal man: 1.87 meters tall, dark hair, hazel eyes, bushy eyebrows, no facial hair, olive skin, broad shoulders, with some muscles but also with a small soft belly (so I could lay my head on it) and strong arms. Once I felt comfortable with it, I introduced it to my especial computer and it did the whole work. The appearance of my virtual boyfriend was ready in less than two hours. However, it was just a sketch on the screen. And I needed a real man. The next step was to set his psychological and emotional characteristics. With a few clicks I added kindness, intelligence, knowledge about anything you can imagine, abilities to listen and know how and when to cuddle, sense of humor and a bunch of virtues I cannot remember right now. So, when I was done with my man, I saved him to the hard disk and let the computer and the Laser Three-dimensional Human Creator I had built the previous year do the work. After two weeks, the machine finished with the process and gave birth to the humanoid who is now my companion and my friend. My friends think I’m mad… my mom and dad think that I have serious issues with people and especially with men (they don’t conceive the idea of having a robotic boyfriend and the fact that I’m not interested in “real” guys) and my “shrink” strongly believes that this is only a stage that I will eventually pass through and that it is typical behavior of avoidance shown in people with Borderline Personality Disorder. What I think is that they don’t have a clue, because they were raised in another era. Nowadays, it seems quite normal falling in love with a virtual lover. Besides, there are so many advantages! I’m absolutely sure he will never cheat on me, he never criticizes me and loves my pets and family. Axtron 3000 (he told me his name right after appearing from the machine) is so close to be a real person, that I keep forgetting that he is a robot! So girls, if you can’t find a decent boyfriend and you don’t want to be single your whole life, get a robotic boyfriend!

Taken from Alondra's diary.