An elderly man eschews the potential friendship his robotic domestic servant can offer, to the extent of refusing the more humanoid presentation that is the norm. This leads him into a bit of trouble with those promoting rights and humane treatment for robots.
These are pretty much the same issues Asimov was covering a l-o-n-g time ago – his first robot story ‘Robbie’ was published in 1940, and which I read the ‘I, Robot’ collection in 1974ish many of the stories were 25years old even then. So not a great deal to add to this genre here, although there’s a touch of maudlin sentimentality with the Goodbye Mr Chips ending.
