Ratty - Bot

They were locked in a stalemate over the last sesame seed.

My Q-Robo 9000, a sleek, disc-shaped smart vacuum I’d named “Goose” for its gentle beeping, was not vacuuming. It was wrestling . ratty bot

It turns out, they were learning.

Last week, my own Goose went fully feral. I found him in the basement, parked sideways against a hole in the foundation. He wasn't stuck. He was guarding it. His infrared sensors were pulsing in a pattern I didn’t recognize. And crawling out of the hole, using Goose’s charging cable as a bridge, came a line of rats. They were locked in a stalemate over the last sesame seed

It started, as most domestic horrors do, at 3:00 AM. they were learning. Last week