Júlia Escudero Moreno – Project FR13D4
Project FR13D4, more known as Frieda by the humans. I was built and designed for helping with different chores like washing the dishes, cleaning the floor, helping children get dressed and making the beds. Nothing too difficult, but it gives humans a bit more free time.
This is a little message I managed to record in a little computer that tells me what to do, something similar to the human brain but way more tiny and light.
I still remember the day I was built to life. The machine in charge of me started building the internal structure, a mix of an iron skeleton and lots of wires, including the little computer. Then I remember moving to another part of the factory, where another machine built the external structure, the attractive one. I felt plastic pieces being put all over me, being held with screws of all measures. Then it came the time for painting. The cold paint was fastly sprayed all over me, covering the once transparent plastic pieces in a beautiful teal color. As the last step, or which I thought was the last step, me and others of my kind were submerged in a huge pool of varnish to make the color last longer and look shiny. That’s when I saw it, our design resembled a human body, but we weren’t built as women or men. The next thing that comes to my memory card is getting inside of a box, I didn’t like it too much. It was a dark and small space, definitely not comfortable.
But what made me happy was being bought by an amazing family. It was formed by two mothers and a lovely son. They treated me like I was one of them, which made me enjoy doing all the tasks assigned to me since the beginning of my fabrication process.
All I could process in my system was happiness and good memories, not expecting it to go away a couple of years after. As expected, new humanoids were created. They were more efficient, capable of doing more tasks and consumed less energy. The first one I heard about was CH3RR13, followed by B0B, D0RI4N and the last one I heard of before being replaced, P1P3R.
Before I could notice, B0B, D0RI4N and P1P3R didn’t require any type of electric energy, allowing the families to save a lot of money on the electric bill. What I didn’t realize was that slowly, everything in the house produced its own energy, plugs slowly disappearing in the houses and by consequence, my life.
I think I’m in the attic now, lots of dust laying on me. There’s not much battery left, but I still listen to my family laughing downstairs and D0RI4N washing the dishes faster than I used to. I hate it here, no one comes to say hello to me anymore.
Goodbye humans, I already hear the beeping noise of my battery completely empty, the darkness taking over my robotic eyes. It has been a pleasure to meet all of you. End of the message.