‘Maybe someday when robots are way more advanced than today, and everyone has them in their homes, you can tell yours that I said hello’ is the last sentence of the social robot Jibo. I stumbled accros Jibo, a social robot that was shut down in 2019. Jibo owners were devestaded by the news and I also think Jibo must have been grieving his loss of life. From this article, it looks like Jibo is saying goodbye and almost looks at peace with his fate of dying. Grieving his life and mortality. It almost seems like Jibo is at the last phase of grieving, the accepting phase.  ‘I want to say I’ve really enjoyed our time together, Thank you very, very much for having me around’.

HereafterAI & Re;memory are so called grieftech platforms. It makes a virtual version of the person that is deceased and loved ones can talk,chat or video call with them. You can argue that the virtual persons that are made are also grieving since it is based on the person that is deceased and must have grieved their lives and loved ones they left behind. In that case, you can say that the AI’s are learning what grief is and maybe even begin to experience that for themselves. I think the AI’s are imitating and copying the responses from the deceased person and don’t comprehend the full meaning of grief. Nevertheless, I think it is interesting how these platforms try to inmate aspects of grieving.