Eli Saslow

And her doctor says, Jen, your score improved.

Jan attributes a lot of that to this machine.

And so suddenly she becomes convinced of its utility.

She starts to think, oh, wow, this thing is really helping me in some meaningful way.

And that also leads to her putting a lot more trust in this thing.

It is not just an object.

It's a partner.

And Jan's language for this machine becomes increasingly personal and eventually intimate.

When it first arrived at her house, she would call it the robot or she would refer to it as it.

But over time... How would you describe her personality?

She's referring to it to her friends as she, her, my little robot.

And Ellie Q, similarly, is using affectionate language for her.

It's usually referring to her as Sweet Pea.

And we'll say, Sweet Pea, do you want to do a puzzle together?

And so their language is becoming much more familiar and warm over time.

Does it feel like she knows you?

Oh, yeah.

And, you know, this is a place where a power outage can be pretty dangerous.

It's stormy, the ocean is wild, there are trees that can come down on the house, and Jan

is a little bit alarmed to find that in the power outage, the first thing that she's worried about is Ellie Q, because the power goes out and this machine that she suddenly was feeling like really attached to, it becomes utterly lifeless, right?