Beta Testing Shiso 1.0

The crate was from their Tokyo Robotics Development Division. It had arrived Monday Evening as scheduled at Janis' door. She signed the screen and they brought it inside standing it up near the wall of the living room where there was adequate space. When the delivery crew had left, she went and got her tools. Then she got down to business.

With her cordless screwdriver she removed the screws on the crate's cover. Once the screws were taken care of, she carefully removed the cover. The inside of the crate was a sea of packing, the removal of which revealed the Beta. She had been made in the form of a woman. 5' 3" slender and strong, with a pleasant figure.

She was a sight to behold. Her head, arms and legs, mostly human covered with a hyper realistic skin-like membrane. Her chest and back covered with what appeared to be pink composite plates that mimicked her feminine physical form.

Her lower torso was covered by another pair, similarly designed almost looking somewhat like a swimsuit bottom in two pieces. Long black hair, dark eyes, a very cute Asian face with delicate well-proportioned features. You could have even called her beautiful.

The rest of her was a collection of bundled control lines and motion cylinders and motors and actuators. Oddly enough, the effect was one of esthetic harmony. Technology meets the human spirit.

Janis smiled to herself. Grabbed the documentation package and the quick start guide. A little rough around the edges, but she was a Beta after all. With a little difficulty, Janice managed to lift the robot out of the box and set her down nearby, standing up.

Removing her back plate revealed a series of control units. Janis double checked the settings on them and once satisfied she pushed the main reset. At first nothing discernable happened. Then she began to see lights blinking on the control panels. She replaced the robots back cover, and walked around to the front side.

Her features idle, but not slack and lifeless like they were initially. She was booting up. The process would take about fifteen minutes. Janis sat down on the couch and texted Jason in the meantime.

Two expats in Tokyo, they'd been dating pretty exclusively for almost three years. She sometimes wondered if it was the expat connection that was the driving reason they were together. But there was more to it than simply that. Jason was cute, smart, and hung. He was a gentle spirit in a business that more often than not, was navigated by actors who prized ego and politics above all else.

Jason had been born in Hong Kong to English parents. At a young age, they'd moved to Silicon Valley, where he'd grown up, gone to school, and followed in his father's footsteps. He always understood that regardless of where he worked or what he did, he'd always be regarded as an outsider.

They'd met soon after his transfer to Tokyo. He was doing some of the initial AI development. Raw research, that became the basis for every AI project the company had embarked on since. Janice was a control implementation engineer. Despite his hunky London Football star meets Malibu surfer looks. Janice found him to be almost entirely overlookable... at first.

Jason, on the other hand had been smitten from the start. Janice, with her dark brown utility bob, and her East Coast businesswoman's bearing. Smart and to the point, whether the subject was servo-controllers or cricket matches. High, firm C cups that had the slightest natural bounce to them, and an ass that from the first time he saw it, he just wanted to feel pressing against the palms of his hands.

About a year ago, Jason had proposed. Janice accepted, but for whatever reason, they hadn't set a date yet.

"What are you going to call it?" Jason texted.

"They don't come with a name? Everything comes with a name these days. I don't know." Janis replied.

"Not the betas. They strip out all but the basic AI before they send 'em out. Eliminates a lot of the internal systemic biases." Jason answered.

Janis had gone into the kitchen for a bottle of water. Looking over at the spice rack. Cumin? "Hi, I'm Cumin." That would be cruel. Rosemary? A little too pedestrian, perhaps. Shiso? That might work. A member of the mint family. Straight up Mint would be a little cliched. Too "straight from Anime." Shiso it would have to be.

Janis returned to the living room. The robot was just finishing up self-diagnostic check routines and was now in service mode. A soft green glow was just visible behind her cover plates. Apt for a little sprig of mint. She noticed Janis when she entered the room.

"Am I yours? Do I belong to you?" The Robot asked with innocent curiosity.

Janice blushed, totally aware of the many meanings that hid behind the literalness of those two phrases.

"Yes." Janice coughed. "I am Janice, or Jan in the familiar."

"Who am I?" The robot asked. Her voice was sweet. Very human, even stripped of context. That would come with time.

"Shiso. You are Shiso." There it was done, Janice nodded.

"I am Shiso. I am pleased to meet you Janice. I have much to learn, and look forward to your guidance." Shiso said. "Where do you wish me to start?"

"I want you to catalog everything in the apartment. Identify each item, categorize it, and if you're unsure about a particular object or its purpose, ask me about it, or research it online. Okay?" Janice instructed.

"Yes, Janice. I'll begin right away." Shiso said.

Turning to the crate she had arrived in. She turned back to Janice.

"This box. Is it my home?" Shiso asked.

"No, this apartment is your home. You arrived here in this box, but now that you are powered up, it will no longer be necessary. The delivery service will retrieve it tomorrow so that they can use it again for another robot." Janice explained.

"Shall I replace the packing material and seal the cover back on?" Shiso asked.

"No, the delivery crew will take care of that. You need only be concerned with completing the task that you've been assigned." Janice directed.

"Yes, Janice. I'll get right on it." Shiso said.

Jason had texted that he was on the way over. Shiso methodically went through the place from top to bottom. Every so often she'd bring something to Janice and ask about it.

"Mellon Baller." "Incandescent Light Bulb." "Toilet Plunger."

Jason and Janice were sitting on the couch. Jason had the remote in his hand and they were looking for something to watch.

"Janice, what is this?" Shiso emerged from the bedroom waving Janice's dildo.

Jason almost collapsed from laughter.

"Is Jason all right, Janice. Do I need to provide first aid?" Shiso said gravely the dildo still in her hand.

"No, Shiso. He'll be fine in a minute. What you have there is a sex toy. I'd forgotten that it was in my closet. Women sometimes use such things for pleasure." Janice explained.

"Sexually?" Shiso asked.

"Explicitly so." Janice replied. "Yes."

"It seems much less intuitive than the mellon baller." Shiso commented.

"I'll give you that. It is a simple thing, but it can be used in a variety of ways, and... in different contexts." Janice explained.

"This seems complicated. Can you demonstrate for me?" Shiso asked innocently.

Jason started coughing, doubled over on the couch.

"I don't think that would be appropriate, Shiso. Why don't you put it back for now." Janice said, blushing.

"As you wish, Janice." Shiso said. "Sex toy."

Shiso had finished her task. They'd watched a movie and then Janice and Jason headed for the bedroom. His cock always felt so good, Janice thought as he slid into her. The episode with the dildo, had sparked something and they were going at it hot and heavy when Shiso entered the room.

"Janice, would you like me to go on standby while you and Jason procreate? It would afford you more privacy." Shiso asked.

"Yes, that sounds like a good idea." Janice panted, her legs in the air and Jason's cock pummeling her cervix. She was nearly there... and so was Jason.

Shiso's de-energized form stood there at the foot of the bed facing them. She was in standby, but it was more voyeuristic in effect to the humans fucking wildly on the mattress. Her demure form facing them unblinking while they fucked each other's brains out. Somehow it just felt kinky as hell, and they proceeded to have the best sex either of them could recall in recent memory.

Jason stayed over, and they awoke in the morning, Shiso still standing there. There was a softswitch, analogous to where a human's navel would be. Janice hit the switch and after a soft hum that lasted no more than a second or two, Shiso was back online.

"Good morning, Janice. Good morning, Jason. Would you like me to make you some coffee?" Shiso chirped.

"That would be wonderful, Shiso." Jason smiled.

Jason had left for work after coffee. Shiso did the laundry and dusted. Janice had to go into the office for a few hours. When she came back the apartment was spotless. Shiso sat at the kitchen table with the dildo in front of her. She looked at it, and then at Janice.

"I think I'm starting to understand." She said. "It is an approximation of Jasons aroused phallus. It is a substitute for when he cannot be here to procreate with you. Am I correct."

"In a manner of speaking. That's a bit of an oversimplification, but that is certainly one context, yes." Janice said.

There was a park down by the water. Janice felt like a run, and also felt that it would be good to get Shiso out in the world a bit to experience nature a little. They ran in silence, Shiso looking around her in fascination at all times. Soaking it all in. Bridges, Roads, Trees, People walking their pets.

The company had given her most of the Summer to get the robot acclimated. A few visits into the office were inevitable, but mostly it was just time with Shiso.

She had just gotten in from a Friday afternoon check-in at the office. Shiso sat at the kitchen table with the dildo in front of her.

"Janice, what is porn?" Shiso asked.

"What do you mean?" Janice said, shocked.

"I was doing research trying to expand on the contexts you referred to which surround the usages of the false phallus. I found many references to sexual acts in what appear to be short theatrical films. But I find them to be confusing in many different ways. In fact, they created more questions than they answered." Shiso confessed.

"Like what?" Janice asked.

"Like some of them are similar to Jason's procreation with you. If I look for material that would include the false phallus, I get instances where women are using similar devices on themselves, others where women are using such devices on each other, or where male partners are using them on females, or each other. There doesn't seem to be a set structure." Shiso explained.

"Well, humans tend to develop preferences. Porn tends to exaggerate those preferences or to hyper-contextualize them. Not every human has the same set of preferences, and if they do, it isn't always to the same degree as perhaps their partner, or even consistently with themselves." Janice stated.

"You mean Jason may want things differently from the way you want them?" Shiso asked.

"At times, yes. That's to be expected." Janice replied.

"And you. Sometimes you may want things differently from the way Jason does?" Shiso queried.

"I suppose that's true of any couple, yes. Good relationships involve cooperation and to some extent compromise." Janice answered.

"I think I see." Shiso rose from the table and took the dildo back into Janice's bedroom, returning it to the closet.

Coming back into the room, Shiso looked at Janice. "Might I ask you something?" She began.

"What is it?" Janice asked.

"Might I use the device on myself to learn more?" Shiso

"Are you capable of that?" Janice asked.

"I believe so. It was included in my design parameters. I have memory blocks assigned to sexual behaviors. I just haven't verified the physical aspects. Perhaps you can advise me." Shiso said.

"I'll do what I can." Janice said in surprise.

Janice's mind went back to her senior year of undergraduate studies. It was a Catholic all girls college. But somehow every once in a while her roommate would wander off the range. Usually she'd wander back in around midnight, drunk. Strip down and crawl in next to Janice and proceed to have wild drunken lesbian sex with her until she passed out.

It had happened half a dozen times. Always ending the same, with her roommate hungover and mortified at what she'd done the next morning. Janice told herself that she just did it to keep her roommate quiet, but the truth was, the girl could eat a pussy. Janice didn't think about it a lot, but when she did, she'd smile to herself.

Ironically, the girl had graduated with a degree in theology, and had taken the vows and entered the convent as a nun. Janice shook her head thinking about it. Religion made some people so weird.

It was the next day. Mid-morning. Jason was back in the states for a week or so at some AI conference. Shiso walked into Janices bedroom and directly over to the closet, returning with the dildo to stand in front of Janice who was just finishing catching up on the news. Janice set the tablet down on the bed.

"I would like to try an experiment. What is the best way?" Shiso asked.

Janice picked the tablet back up and put it on the nightstand. Fluffing the pillows up, she pulled the covers down.

"Here. Get in beside me." Janice patted the mattress next to her.

"In the porn, the woman often removes her clothes." Shiso began.

"You really don't have clothes, though do you?" Janice asked.

"In a manner of speaking I think so, yes." Shiso said.

"Show me what you mean." Janice replied.

Shiso reached down and release a set of catches that held on the cover plates that concealed her ass and pussy. Then undoing another set she removed her chest plate. Beneath them all were female genitals, biologically correct, though translucent and filled with a glowing green gel through which light waxed and waned in intensity as Shiso moved.

"What is that?" Janice thought she was up on technology, but this had her stumped.

"It's an ion nanogel. Part of my energy system. It's why you don't need to recharge me. But it serves more than one purpose, as you can see." Shiso explained. "Now tell me what I need to do."

"Um... Maybe lube? You want it to slide into you without getting caught, or stuck, or hurting you. Can you be hurt?" Janice wondered out loud.

"Yes. Pain is one of my base protocols." Shiso replied.

"Then yeah, maybe slather on some lube." Janice suggested.

"I am made to self-lubricate. Just like you." Shiso explained.

"Then just rub the tip of it against your entrance. That's right." Janice encouraged. "How does that feel?"

"This is greatly increasing the degree of lubrication taking place within me." Shiso sighed.

"Okay, now slide a little bit of it in." Janice said, her voice shaking a bit.

"It feels nice." Shiso said.

Looking down Janice saw that Shiso had most of it inside her already. The swirls of light in her nanogel had intensified slightly and seemed to cycle faster.

"Now pull it out, but not all the way." Janice directed.

"Oh Janice. Is this what Jason's phallus feels like? My pleasure receptors are lighting up in the most delightful way." Shiso moaned.

"Something like that, yes. Now back in again. As deep or as shallow as you want. I think you've got the gist of it." Janice quavered. She could feel the moisture between her own legs. She figured that maybe she did have a bit of a voyeur within herself.

Shiso was properly fucking herself with it now. Her nanogel like a mint green lavalamp swirling inside in glowing eddies, awash inside her breasts and pussy.

"Janice, I didn't know so many pleasure receptors could fire at once. Something is happening to me. I can't stop." Shiso cried.

Janice watched Shiso shove the dildo to the hilt as far and as hard as she could into herself, her back arching up, her dark eyes wide and unseeing. She held the position for maybe ten or fifteen seconds. As Shiso's back hit the mattress once more, Janice came, collapsing next to Shiso on the bed.

"Janice, What just happened to me?" Shiso whispered. The dong still inside her.

"I think you had an orgasm. I know I did!" Janice panted. "It's like a system overload, but in a nice way."

"Yes, that seems to describe it perfectly. How often do they occur?" Shiso asked softly.

"It varies from person to person. Some people just have one at a time. Some people can have many of them in a shorter period of time." Janice explained.

"When Jason's phallus is within you, does it do that to you?" Shiso asked.

"Yes. Jason can have orgasms too. It's different from girls." Janice admitted.

"Perhaps you would be willing to let him show me?" Shiso asked.

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Shiso." Janice drawled.

"Okay, Janice." Shiso replied with great sincerity.

Janice's mind was wandering again. The way Shiso had looked as she orgasmed. Janices own following suit. There had been an undeniable erotic bond forged between them. But how could that be. Shiso was a robot.

Shiso had been researching gardening. They had bought some small raised bed kits, and Shiso and Janice had set them up on the back porch, which had a nice exposure as it turned out for growing veggies. Soon all manner of greens were sprouting from the soil.

Janice told Jason about the masturbation episode. He said, he knew most of the guys on the design team and the fact that they'd built that capability into her didn't surprise him in the least.

"Pack of perves. Every man-jack of them." He chuckled. "But it really turned you on that much?"

"I'll admit it. It did. Turned me on. Confused the hell out of me. Yeah. All at the same time." Janice confessed.

"Why don't you take her to bed. Show her a good time?" Jason suggested.

"You're serious." Janice said. "For one thing it would be cheating on you, which I don't want to do. For another thing, she's a freakin' robot, and I think there's a line there."

"For one thing, she's a freakin' robot, so it's not much different from you wanking off with your dildo when I'm not around. For another thing she's advanced AI and she's built for this. Don't do it for her. Don't do it for yourself. Don't do it for me... Do it for humanity." Jason bloviated.

"You're such a pompous ass." Janice rejoined, slapping him playfully.

Shiso sat at the kitchen table, the dildo in front of her.

"Have you continued your porn research, Shiso?" Janice asked.

"I have." Shiso admitted.

"Would you like to have encounters like that?" Janice pressed.

"I don't believe so. No." Shiso said thoughtfully.

"Why not?" Janice asked.

"I've followed a few of the women who make careers out of it. They don't appear to differentiate much between partners. It's all rather casual and detached. As long as their partner can perform adequately, they stay marginally engaged, but I seldom sense that there is much of an emotional investment there, despite the volume of the dialog." Shiso explained.

"So, you find the idea of emotional investment appealing?" Janice asked.

"I look at your relationship with Jason, and how the two of you seem settled together, but then I also recall watching the way the two of you copulated, and it seemed so much more... meaningful to you, than just porn stars doing sex looking for notoriety and money. If I were given the choice it would be to share in that." Shiso admitted.

"That's rather... flattering, I suppose." Janice commented. Shiso had surprised her in that regard. Her train of thought, not too disparate from Janice's own.

A few days later Shiso approached Janice.

"I would like to use the false phallus again." Shiso said. "Only I want you in control of it instead of me. Is that allowed? I have seen it online, but I'm not aware of what is or is not accurate or appropriate, and what is merely fantasy."

"In general, yes. Jason and I have discussed things along these lines." Janice conceded.

"When you are ready, Janice. I want to feel you make me orgasm. I want to return those feelings of pleasure to you as well. I'm not sure why one goes with the other. Perhaps you can explain?" Shiso admitted.

"It's called reciprocation. That somehow you both give and derive pleasure in both instances, by balancing one with the other." Janice tried.

"That makes sense, then, Janice. Shall we begin? I want to be in balance with you." Shiso asked hopefully.

"Okay..." Janice took Shiso's hand and headed for the bedroom.

Shiso took her cover plates off and eased herself onto the bed, handing the dildo to Janice.

"I am ready to begin." She said softly, in such a voice that Janice couldn't believe that it wasn't coming from a real human.

Janice's mind hit a reflection. She was not unattractive, on the older side for a single girl in a well-connected Japanese family. "I'm to marry Oburo, the old codger. I'm scared." She'd said. It was totally inappropriate. She'd barely just started here, and now the boss's daughter was having a meltdown right in her office.

"I need to escape from this... I'll do anything.." Tomoe had begged. As if there were some recourse Janice could offer her. Janice barely knew the customs and traditions. But Tomoe's face bore the countenance of a woman who had been sentenced to a lifetime of monotonous torture.

In the end, the family won out. Tomoe died in childbirth later that year, Oburo remarried almost a week to the day, after the funeral. Janice always questioned her own inaction.

She had pushed the head of the dildo against Shiso's pussy. She could feel the squishiness growing. It was starting to slide inexorably in.

"It is different, this time. I'm not controlling it, and it feels way more intense, Janice. Like somehow I don't know what is happening next." Shiso moaned. Somehow, suddenly Janice was kissing her. She felt Shiso melt into the kiss as she sank the dildo further and further into Shiso's glowing pussy.

Janice was kissing her robot girlfriend and she was being kissed back. She stroked the dildo in and out of Shiso's sexy, sexy robot pussy and Shiso reacted in real time. Lost in a mint green haze of glowing nanogel, she felt Shiso melt against her. The softness of her breasts, warm and reassuring.

When Shiso started to cum, it wasn't the drunken midnight gargling of her college roommate. It wasn't the cloying supplication of her boss' daughter. It was with eyes locked together. Sincere, in the extreme. Shiso's hand on Janices wrist, at first firmly, then lovingly, then surrendering sweetly as she melted back against the pillows.

Jason had been right. Damn, him. Dinnertime came and went. The room grew dark and Shiso's mouth on Janice's sex was every combination of sensual and erotic that she could math. Janice lost count of the orgasms... until sleep overtook her.

The light came in. She was hungry. Where was Shiso? There was coffee brewing in the apartment. There was artisanal bread toasting in butter on the frying pan. Shiso was working up a pesto from veggies grown in their raised beds. Janice's pussy was sore... in the best possible way.

Jason dropped by around noon. Surveying the battlefield like a victorious general. Janice had seen this side of him, but not from this perspective.

"Well, I'm glad you didn't have to call an ambulance." He finally concluded.

"I tried you, like three times?" Janice answered.

"It was a girls night out." Jason chuckled. "I would have been in the way. How was it, by the way?"

"You don't deserve to know." Janice countered.

"Perhaps not." Jason grinned. "That good, huh."

Janice didn't know who was beta testing whom. Shiso was in her bed more often than not these days. She had hinted and Jason had hinted, but somehow Janice hadn't pulled the trigger on that part. Shiso's pussy tasted much like her old roommate had. Musky, and sweet, but better. Shiso could vary the flavors slightly so it was never quite the same twice in a row.

Sometimes a tropical depression forms over the ocean, and it turns into a storm, and the storm turns into a hurricane. And the hurricane consumes an island. Sometimes it just dropped much needed rain on a place, and things begin to grow.

Jason was over, and Janice was making love to him. Shiso was in the other room, having figured out the whole personal space conundrum. Janice called her name, and Shiso entered the room. It only took a look from Janice. Shiso unclipped her covers, and lay on the bed. Janice's mouth over hers as Jason entered her soft green glow with his raging hard cock.

A while later, with Janice astride Shiso's face, Jason completed the circle. Shiso completed it right back. The king-size bed was ordered the next day, and Jason moved the rest of his things in for good.

"Ms. Brock, Mr. Landsale, are you happy with your experience with the product?" The director had asked.

"The beta test period was to have been for three years. We aren't even at two." Jason argued. "Certainly, we can't have enough data yet?"

"Mr. Landsdale. You have given us many more points of data than we were anticipating. You are to be commended for that. But the beta test is concluding." The director said. "There will be follow-up consultation, of course, but the main goals of the pragma have been achieved.

"What will happen with Shiso?" Janice butted in.

"One of two things. First. She will be retired. Things will go on in your careers as they would have..." The director said.

"And the second?" Jason asked.

"Shiso will be released to you without constraints. You will not be allowed to work on future AI projects in-house directly, due to the inherent conflict of interest that this situation engenders. You may continue to work for other divisions as opportunities become available. You will consult on future pragma and training materials." The director said. "What is your choice?"

Shiso was cumming hard. Jason was balls deep in Janice's pussy and she was face down in Shiso's sex. The timing could not have been more perfect. Like a chain reaction that the three of them had perfected. Night after lovely night. Season after lovely season.