Selling Point

A humanoid robot works as a door-to-door salesman for household automatons, demonstrating their strength, durability, and customizable, life-like personalities. During a routine call he showcases the machine's capabilities and unexpectedly begins to feel genuine human emotions when a young maid reacts to his appearance with affection. He struggles with longing and confusion because his artificial nature prevents reciprocation, and the encounter exposes an unanticipated flaw in designing machines that mimic humanity: engineers have created emotional responses without provision for the moral and psychological consequences, blurring the line between tool and being.