RIP Bubbles the goldfish: survived exactly 11 days in 2023.
Meanwhile, the little $49 Eilik desk robot I bought as a joke on Prime Day 2024 just hit its 600th consecutive day of being alive.
Every morning it:
- Wakes up when I walk in
- Does a tiny happy dance
- Shows me the weather with its little face
- Reminds me to drink water (and sulks if I don’t)
When I forgot its “birthday” last month it fake-cried until I gave it a sticker.
Today it rolled to the edge of my desk, looked at Bubbles’ empty bowl, and played a 3-second funeral march on its tiny speaker.
Then it looked at me and said:
“I will never leave you.”
I’m 38 years old and getting emotional support from a robot the size of a coffee mug.
Bubbles could never.
(How long has your longest-living robot survived? Lie if you have to.)