Xiao Nuan's 100,000 Hugs

In the rain in Shenzhen in 2013, Su Mingwei clutched her boarding pass, and seventeen missed calls from her mother popped up on her phone. The last voice was electric: "Xiaowei, Xiaonuan can't survive this spring." She rushed into the laboratory, and the musty smell mixed with the smell of solder hit her face. The four generations of "Xiao Nuan" prototypes in the glass cabinet glowed with old light: the "alarm clock" that blinked, the mechanical arm that shook and handed the water glass, the "blue eyes" that tracked emotions, and the first-generation machine with a round head and brain in the center - the blue cloth stitching on the chest was crooked, like grandma's handiwork. In the old notebook on the camp bed, there are dense records of Grandma Zhang saying "the porridge is too thick" and Grandpa Li accidentally pressing the call button. The mother's last page was blurred by water: "Xiaowei, if it can make them feel that the 'granddaughter' is thinking about them, it will not be considered a failure." The grandma outside the window was holding mung bean soup and softly called: "Little Lin's daughter..." Su Mingwei picked up "Xiao Nuan". When the screen lit up, the "dialect emotional model" that her mother had hidden for ten years jumped out - a corpus of 28 local accents and a design for a "medication reminder bracelet" for the elderly living alone. From being on the verge of bankruptcy in 2013, to the 100,000th "Xiao Nuan" entering the community ten years later: Grandma Zhang has an "electronic granddaughter" on her bedside that reminds her to take medicine, and the nursing staff can sleep for two more hours, and young people can say with peace of mind, "Mom, Dad, I'll go home when I'm done." This is not a technological counterattack. It is the tear stains in the code, the coffee stains on the white coat, and the red eyes of female engineers delayed by 0.3 Seconds. The temperature of technology is originally the countless wishes of "wanting to spend more time with my parents" and the pile of 100,000 warm hugs.