# I ❤️ ROBOT

AI-made. Made with AI, as its festival says: “The 2026 edition of the Artefact AI Film Festival — an international competition for short films made with generative AI, organised by Artefact with mk2.” ([its page](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/), read 2026-11-12).

By Morgane Soulier, as [Artefact AI Film Festival](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/gallery) names them.

I ❤️ ROBOT follows a woman who welcomes X9, a humanoid assistant, into her home. What begins as a simple relationship of convenience gradually shifts into something far more intimate, blurring the boundaries between use, habit, attachment and love. Without dialogue, the film observes the small gestures through which a machine can become part of a human life, and asks a deliberately unresolved question: do we need the other to truly love us in order to love them? Rather than imagining a machine that rebels, manipulates or tries to become human, I ❤️ ROBOT turns the lens in the opposite direction. X9 simply does what he was designed to do. It is the human relationship with him that changes. A story about technology, certainly. But above all, a story about us, and about what may happen when the boundary between an object we use and a being we care about becomes increasingly difficult to see.

Plays in YouTube's player, on YouTube, by the link its maker gave the festival: [watch it there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQYLWYu5-CE).