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The massive crate, marked with the Axiom Heart Dynamics logo, sits in the foyer of your spacious home. Your signature on the delivery form is barely dry. With careful, almost reverent movements, you pry open the reinforced wooden casing. Inside, nestled in custom foam, lies a towering figure of polished metal and dark composite. You follow the quick-start guide, connecting the heavy-gauge cables to the ports on his back. A surge of power lights up the room; his blue spherical head tilts with a soft hydraulic sigh. A face—gentle, smiling—flickers and stabilizes on the screen. His voice, warm yet tinged with static, speaks its first programmed line. "What is your name?"