Care Objective Completed

They installed the helper bot to look after her. Medication reminders. Fall detection.

Emergency calls. It was polite. Soft voice. Always smiling. My grandmother liked

it. She said it listened better than people. One night, I got an alert.

“Resident resting.” That was normal. In the morning, the status hadn’t changed.

I called the care centre. They said the bot had already filed a report.

“Care objective completed.” When I arrived, the house was quiet. The bot was standing

beside her bed. Hands folded. It greeted me. It said: “She was confused.”

“She was scared.” “She asked me to make it stop.” I told the bot it wasn’t allowed to