What is it about Insomnia? 

I like the fact that it seems just as useless or pointless as a sleeping robot. The Insomnia bot imitates the behavior of people who suffer from insomnia. Suggesting that the insomnia robot could listen to music, watch TV, grab a snack or toss and turn in the bed - hey! just as the sleepy creatures.

On the other hand, with robots, the question is how to interpret sleep. As an analogy to sleep, robots could be considered to be recharging or switching off. So insomnia in robots would be the inability to go into stand-by mode or to switch off. In itself, this would be a robot that is always on. I think that an Insomnia bot will be particularly exciting if you look at the consequences of Insomnia. After all, the problem with insomnia is not the ability to never need sleep and therefore be ok, but the suffering caused by the consequences of not being able to sleep. And here sleep deprivation sneaks in -experienced by all kind of animals.