Synopsis

It has been fifteen years since the Sentience Amendments to the UN Declaration of Human Rights. In some countries robots live peacefully among the human population while in others they are still subject to persecution and enslavement.

Whilst the majority are receptive to integration, murmurs of opposition are rising on both sides. Robot activists are taking increasingly aggressive actions to liberate those in servitude. And anti-robot groups wishing to strip robots of their rights are gaining momentum through fear, asserting it is only a matter of time before robots assume control through subversion of the zeroth law.

With advances in biomechanics, human abuse of robotic enhancements is widespread. And as a generation of robots contemplate their expiration and explore procreation, the line between man and machine is becoming increasingly blurred.

~MR