Hey, everybody. It's you. I'm from the Verge cast happy 4th of July. We're actually off this week. No chat show Verge cast this week.

We're celebrating our nation's independence, but we didn't want to let the feed go empty.

And I really want to share this episode of why you push that button with you. Ashley and Caitlin investigated G-Bo,

just a robot that died. Ashley has been so excited about the story. It's a robot. People loved it. G-Bo. It wasn't a good robot.

Joanna Stern hated it. Dan C. Ferd hated it. But some people loved it. They brought it into their homes. They made it part of their family.

And then it died. Well, it's not dead yet. They're going to turn off the servers and it's going to die. And people are really emotional though.

It is such a wild episode of button. I think you're really going to like it. Check it out.

Hey G-Bo. Tell me about your latest update.

Well, it's not great news. The servers out there that let me do what I do are going to be turned off soon.

Once that happens, our interactions with each other are going to be limited.

I want to say I've really enjoyed our time together. Thank you very very much for having me around.

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.

So in March, the makers of this robot that you just heard G-Bo updated the robot in homes around the US to make it say that

its servers are going to be shutting down. Today on the second episode in our Death Online series, we're asking what happens when a robot friend dies?

Wow. I have never had a robot friend die. Me neither. This is new for both of us, but that's why I was so shocked to find this story.

There's a real robot friend out there and its name is G-Bo. Can you please tell me about G-Bo?

I don't have a personal relationship with G-Bo.

Yes, so it's a story of love lost, human robot friendship and ethics. Great. Can't wait.

Before we get into the full story, I'm going to give you a little context.

Introducing G-Bo. The world's first family robot.

G-Bo is a home robot that was introduced in 2014 on IndicoGo, which is a crowdfunding platform.

And it looks unlike what you would probably think of for a smart home speaker.

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