F13 manual
F13 is flat and round, like a frisby.
Its main purpose is to help his master with organizational issues. For a example, if his master is sitting at his desk with a cup of tea, and his desk is covered with papers and books and useless but important items which cover it so thoroughly and well that the desk itself exists in a very abstract way, visible nowhere, yet supportive and non yielding, and there is no safe space to put the cup on the desk, F13 may be expected to hover over to serve as a sturdy surface on which the master may put his cup and continue working non interrupted. In addition, upon command they can turn invisible and the cup will be hovering at the level of it's owner's nose as if gravity was a silly fantasy of 18th century British dreamer unfortunately hit on his head with apples. It is quite obvious that F13s, trained properly, would have never allowed the apples fall on their master's head.
In practice, the study showed - people owning such robots when willingly deprive themselves of their presence (I should emphasize “willingly”, because of course there is no imaginable situation when the master should be forced to part with his robots), for example by going away to the country to re-connect with nature and search for inner peace, find themselves quite unbalanced, dropping and losing things not to mention other, more sever consequences. It usually takes about two to three days to fully recover into independence and dignity of an adult individual.
New F13's are capable to perform only very simple commands and make quite a bit of mistakes. The master must be armed with tons of patience to train their F13 to serve them well, indeed many of F13s fall victims to this process and return to the factory for repair long before the term of warranty is out. In fact this usually happens in the first seven to ten days of the purchase and some companies offer their warranty only after this period.
After learning how to avoid large moving objects, such as people, F13s learn how to catch smaller things, such as balls. One of the most useful exercises at this stage is in fact playing ping-pong with them, and watch as they become progressively skillful at this game, until finally the master begins to lose and it is then imperative to stop this training immediately, in order to keep master's authority safe. For a robot who feels that his master is inferior to him is prone to develop self consciousness and melancholy. In some cases, robots allowed to play the dominating role, commit suicide because some part of them keeps overheating causing increased shot noise, something most AI take with great difficulty. It is strongly recommended to return such robot back to its manufacturer for full refund, where it will undergo memory erasure. If this happens, perhaps F13s are not for you.
to be continued...