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* NoSocialSkills: {{Downplayed}} as Eve is obobviously a robot.
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* RobotGirl: Eve the titular "robot" who looks and

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* RobotGirl: Eve the titular "robot" who looks and acts like a typical 12 year old girl.
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* ForgotHeWasARobot: Eve is seen being out of breathe from running or doing strenuous activities, despite he likely doesn't need to breathe. [[spoiler: The same thing applies to Emery although in this case its invoked by his father who is keeping from knowing his true nature.]]

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And most astonishing of all: she's a robot, a product of Eden Laboratories. When Eve discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she's ever known.

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And most astonishing of all: she's a robot, a product of Eden Laboratories.

When Eve discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she's ever known.

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* EmergentHuman: The flashbacks to Eve's time at Eden Labatories has her experiencing this as part of his development, becoming more human-like.


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* [[spoiler: ArtificialFamilyMember: David's end goal is basically to {{invoke}} this with Eve and Emery along with a incompleted third robot meant for his wife.]]


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* CheerfulAI: Eve is nice and energetic finding even the simplest things people take for granted. [[spoiler: Her robot "brother" Emery is the same and possibly even more so thanks to his personality as a 12 year-old.]]


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* ComputerVoice: Implied with Eve when she was just a cube which is protayed as stilled and seeingher using the wrong words at times.


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Eve looks like an ordinary 12-year-old girl, but there's nothing ordinary about her. She has no last name. No parents or guardian. She's on the run from a dangerous and secretive organization that will stop at nothing to track her down.
And most astonishing of all: she's a robot, a product of Eden Laboratories. When Eve discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she's ever known.

After being arrested for shoplifting, Eve is interviewed by Petra Amis from Child Welfare Services. Her incredible story unfolds during the interrogation, with flashbacks to her life inside Eden Laboratories, which has a dark secret. Listeners follow Eve from her first moment of consciousness to her evolution as a nearly-human companion to Emory, the son of the founder of Eden Laboratories.

''Interview With A Robot'' is an Audible Original story written by Lee Bacon, and narrated by cast members Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer, Josh Hurley, Eileen Stevens, Erin Mallon, Johnathon Davis, and Stephen Bel Davies.
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!'''Examples tropes in this story include:'''
* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Eve is "the property" of Eden Laboratories and despite David and Emery treat kindly only the latter really cares about her as a friend. [[spoiler: All David sees is the chance to have his daughter back.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: There are initially hints that David Sharpe is planning something dangerous, with savvy listeners likely assuming his plans involve the military. [[spoiler: The real reason Eve ran away was because he wanted to mindwipe her and plant fake memories so she would think herself as his deceased daughter.]]
* ChildProdigy: Emery is a bright kid having reprogrammed the source code of his smart-watch to be compatible with his A.I. tutor, something that not even his father’s top programmers thought possible. [[spoiler: David indicates that the real Emery was also bright but nowhere near what his robot copy is capable of. Its also implied that Emery used his robotic abilities to reprogramm the watch.]]
* ControlFreak: David Sharpe’s biggest flaw hands down and it has cost him so much as a result.
* NiceGirl: Even when on the run from Eden, Eve takes the time to return the self-driving cars and the money she takes to their rightful owners and clearly doesn't paint humans in general with the same brush as David.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Petra Amis, the social worker assigned to Eve after her arrest.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: {{Invoked}} by David whose goal is to create a robot is acts exactly as a human while "better" as in stronger, faster, and even smarter.
* RobotGirl: Eve the titular "robot" who looks and
* TragicVillain: All David wanted was [[spoiler: to undo the deaths of his wife and children via creating robot duplicates of them. Unfortunately his ControlFreak tendencies caused him to lose the closest thing.]]
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