Robots In Steve Henn's 'When The Car Is The Driver'

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Robots
Prompt 1:
In Source one, “Meet the Robots”, By Lucas Langley, and Source three, “When the Car is the Driver” by Steve Henn, is about how robots are able to save our lives. Robots have helped people in their jobs like, mining, being a doctor, exploring volcanoes and more. They help us with our everyday lives, and make it easier, and safer for people at to work. A robot named Gemini-Scout helps people out in mines. They test the air quality for gases and tell the miners if the air is safe. That is something that a robot does to help keep us safe. Robots are dependable for us humans, and also tireless! Robots can also be self-driving cars. They can helps us drive safer and know what is happening on the road ,when us humans might not even
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I really needed one because my mom, Jane always makes me babysit my little, annoying, and bratty sister, Kate. Almost every Friday night mom always has to work late night shifts and I can never hang out with my friend Hannah. Hannah is one of my best friends, she is so loyal, kind, and very adventurous; just like me! I can never hang out because I always have to babysit my sister. My mom knew about the babysitting robot. She didn't really like the idea of it because of it being a robot. I convinced her that it can clean up after our mess, watch Kate (maybe even me) and even cook for us. It was getting late and I was too tired to deal with the robot. I was going to test it out tomorrow.

Thursday morning, 7:45am I woke up to a bird chirping. I had a terrible dream about the robot, as if I was scared of it. I got up and ran to the robot. I was too nervous to even turn it on. I don't know how it will react. I kept on thinking about all the possible things that could go good or bad. My heart was thumping so loud like it was going to explode out of my chest. I knew what I had to do. As I turned on the robot it suddenly made a noise, BEEP, BOP! I jumped up and screamed. My mom ran into the room looking