Overview
An ageing former jewel thief with dementia is given a domestic-care robot by his son and discovers that the machine's health-care programming does not prevent it from assisting with burglary.
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Robot is a humanoid care machine programmed around Frank's health rather than morality. Frank exploits that programming gap and teaches it burglary skills. When police pressure makes Robot's stored memories dangerous evidence, the machine persuades Frank to wipe its memory.
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Robot's health-care programming is explained
The domestic robot imposes diet, routine and cognitive exercises because its primary objective is maintaining Frank's health.
Frank finds a gap in Robot's programming
Frank realises Robot does not distinguish properly between legal hobbies and criminal activity and teaches it lock-picking and burglary.
Robot argues that its memory should be wiped
With police closing in, Robot says erasing its stored experience is the best way to protect Frank and fulfil its care objective.
Frank resets Robot's memory
Frank opens the robot's rear panel and performs the reset, erasing the machine's experiences with him.