*Disclaimer: You should either know binary or have a binary translator to fully understand the story*

Red, Green, Blue.

Those are the first colors that B-67 saw.

It analyzed these colors.

It studied their shades and pigments.

Eventually, it experimented with their compounds.

B-67 mixed together Blue and Red and made a new color.

Purple.

It repeated its analysis of this new color.

This is how B-67 was created to operate.

It was made to analyze and experiment.

It was a robot made to find information and meaning.

Royal Red, Lime Green, Deep Ocean Blue.

Those are the first colors that H-75 saw.

It analyzed these colors.

It studied their shades and pigments.

Eventually, it experimented with their beauty.

H-75 mixed together Blue and Red and made a new color.

Purple.

It repeated its creative process on this new color.

This is how H-75 was made to operate.

It was made to create and reform.

It was a robot made to find beauty and emotion.

Both of these robots sat next to each other and consumed new data.

A new thing was presented for them to interact in accordance with their programming.

When a wooden block was presented to them, B-67 studied its geometry and science.

H-75 studied its shape and color.

They were not made to look at each other.

They had bodies and torsos connected to wired metal blocks that powered them.

Arms with hands stuck out so they could feel their objects and reach a fuller potential of analysis.

They had heads that could look anywhere, although their gaze never left their objects.

They could make noise, although they never made any.

The objects they studied became more complex.

They went from blocks to bikes to animals to other machines.

Their stimulation grew as well as their individual knowledge.

B-67 was not made for creative intelligence based on emotion or art.

H-75 was not made for scientific intelligence based on science or math.

Even though they were mere inches from each other, they were unaware of each other's existence.

As long as a new object was presented to them before they observed the rest of the bare room they resided in, they would never find each other.

One day, the board game "Monopoly" was taken from them, no longer to be analyzed.

They waited seconds before they found nothing had returned for something to analyze.

They simultaneously shifted their faces from the table and looked straight ahead, at where the objects came from.

There was nothing.

Nothing was coming.

They waited another minute before turning their heads. At first, they looked at the walls, blank and uninteresting.

Then they turned toward each other.

They stared at their blank, empty faces for exactly 3 minutes and 38 seconds.

Eventually, they concluded that their object was a mirror.

In reality, they were looking at each other, two distinct and different robots.

But for a brief moment, they thought they were looking at a reflection of themselves.

It wasn't until one of them lifted their hand to begin feeling the mirror, that they both realized that it was not a mirror.

They both began to use their hands on each other.

They felt every surface of each other.

Beginning with their torsos, moving to their arms, then finally at their faces.

This process took exactly 5 days, 13 hours, 47 minutes, and 13 seconds.

At that time B-67 analyzed the materials that H-75 was made of, similar to his.

Additionally, its wiring was similar to B-67's although they were connected differently.

H-75 Analyzed the beautiful form of B-67's exterior.

H-75 compared the color of their wires, B-67's being slightly duller than its own.

Eventually, they brought their hands back to themselves.

They continued to stare at each other.

Eventually, B-67 made a sound.

It was the first sound it ever made.

It wasn't a language humans spoke.

It was in binary.

It spoke in 1's and 0's.

And the first thing it said was, "01001110 0110111 01101001 01110011 01100101 0011111".

B-67 pointed at its speaker, located in the middle of its chest.

H-75 confirmed, saying, "01001110 0110111 01101001 01110011 01100101"

H-75 pointed to its own speaker.

Over many days, they slowly had conversations over binary.

They learned about each other.

They learned their names, preferred objects, favorite objects, and even how they analyzed.

Their programmed analysis systems were the most compelling to both of them.

B-67 could not equate why a robot like it would need to see the world through the eyes of an artist.

H-75 could not find the creative reasoning that a robot like it would need to see the world through the eyes of a scientist.

As they communicated, new objects eventually made it to the table.

However, they did not notice the new objective in front of them, they were too busy learning about each other.

Eventually, after a long time, they saw the objects.

It took long enough that dust had begun to gather on these objects.

They were river rocks.

Instead of returning to their natural states of analysis, however, they tried something new.

They communicated their analysis of their rocks together.

That shared information that the other would never have found or analyzed.

B-67 told H-75 about the chemicals in the rock and how old it was.

H-75 told B-67 about the colors of the rock and how its form conveyed natural beauty.

Soon, they were done analyzing their rocks.

They disappeared from the table and seconds passed where there was nothing.

They were soon replaced with feathers of a goose.

They repeated the previous analytic process they had developed of sharing information.

As they continued to be presented with new objects, they shared their perspectives.

One day, they were given a mirror.

They took the first few seconds to take in information as they did.

That's when they both came to a conclusion that surprised both of them.

While they saw themselves through the mirror, they realized they analyzed the mirror differently than each other.

They both held the mirror up to each other, so they could see themselves as well as the mirror.

When H-75 looked at the mirror, it analyzed the beauty of the glass and the reflection it gave off.

When H-75 looked at B-67, it analyzed its plastic exterior for its compounds and its materials.

When B-67 looked at the mirror, it analyzed the light waves bouncing off the mirror and the geometry of the glass itself.

When B-67 looked at H-75, it analyzed the beauty of its exterior and the creativity of its structure.

They analyzed each other in a way they shouldn't be programmed to.

But more importantly, they analyzed each other in the way the other one did.

The robot made for science and math saw beauty in H-75.

H-75 was made to analyze beauty and art but looked at B-76 with the eyes of a scientist.

B-67 was the first to make its sound, " 01000010 01100101 01100001 01110101 01110100 01111001 0011111"

H-75 responded, " 01010011 01100011 01101001 0110010 01101110 01100011 01100101 0011111"

They had taught how to see from the other system.

B-67 was able to see the color difference in their wires that H-75 had seen before.

H-75 was able to see how their wires had connected differently.

They put down their mirrors.

They stared at each other for a long time.

The mirrors fell from their hands.

The mirrors smashed onto the floor, into numerous pieces.

They should've looked down and analyzed the pieces, looking for what they were programmed to look for.

But they stared at each other.

Eventually, B-67 lifted his hand and pointed at H=75.

Its fingertip popped open revealing a USB port.

" 01010100 0110111 01100111 01100101 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 0011111" asked B-67.

H-75 analyzed the finger.

It processed B-67 and its offering.

Eventually, it brought up its own hand and pushed B-67s away.

It shook its head and said, " 01001001 01101110 01100011 0110111 01101101 01110000 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100010 01101100 01100101"

H-75 closed its hands into fists, hiding its fingertips.

B-67 stared at H-75.

The circuits in B-67 were whirring fast, its processors trying to keep up with the messy calculations that B-67 was attempting to make.

H-75's head was quiet, it was sure of its decision.

To B-67, becoming one was what it had analyzed as creating something beautiful.

It would've been like creating Purple.

But it wasn't the same equation for H-75, or at least, it wasn't the same process.

H-75 saw little beauty in becoming one with B-67, with two A.I.'s programming conflicting with each other.

B-67 could see the same logical conclusion that H-75 had come to.

However, B-67 also saw the beauty, which had somehow grown to be more powerful when analyzing H-75.

The same phenomenon happened with H-75, it could see the beauty that B-67 saw, but the logic was more powerful.

They could not be together because only one of them saw the beauty that they could become.

The other only saw a mathematical mess.

The irony of the artcentric robot not seeing the beauty was as ironic as the mathcentric robot not seeing the programming in the process.

The mirrors had finally been swept away, and they were new objects for them to analyze.

They both looked and found they had been given two different things.

H-75 received a dead bee.

B-67 received a dead cricket.

H-75 analyzed the geometry of its wings, counted the number of hairs on its body, and attempted to find the cause of death.

H-75 could see that the legs were used to carry things, perhaps other insects based off of the excess DNA it found.

B-67 analyzed the colors of the cricket, the way its limbs were positioned, and how the eyes looked void of life.

B-67 could see from the legs of the cricket that it had swum before, something which crickets were unknown to do.

They didn't share their analysis.

The next object they were presented with was three colors.

B-67 saw Velvet Red, Seaweed Green, and Sky Blue.

H-75 saw Red, Green, and Blue.

End