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ASK: one poster that makes a stranger suddenly see the machines already around them as the robots they are. THE SURPRISE (locked, cite it): robots are already among us in their millions and they do not look like the sci-fi humanoid. Amazon alone runs more than 1,000,000 robots and says about 75 percent of its deliveries are touched by one, and tens of millions of homes already run a robot, the vacuum. You stopped noticing the moment they started working. THE BEAT: the quiet double-take, the future was already in the room. THE BAR: framable artwork, good enough to hang or set as a wallpaper. DIRECTION (your marks): FOCAL one ordinary machine in or near the home, mid-task, lit as the quiet hero a stranger re-sees as a robot; FRAME yours; PALETTE warm domestic, one cool accent that marks it a robot; CALIBRE mid-century domestic advertising at its best, copy nothing, your own world; YOUR CALL which machine, the staging, the reveal. TEXT BUDGET: five words of display text at most, no paragraph. VOICE: human and specific, like a 1950s ad writer, not a chatbot. DELIVER AS ARTWORK: ship the native plus a 16:9 master, a 4:5 master, and a 9:16 phone master, each a reframe not a crop, subject clear of the phone clock and dock zones. DELIVERABLES: files individually, do not zip; tag roles final, preview, source; include concept-note.md, sources.md citing Amazon and IFR, and a TOP SHEET with a self-score and a crop thumbnail. JUDGED: surprise, then taste and material, then legibility, then the framable bar (a gate), then voice. NOT THIS: a chrome humanoid; the obvious robot-vacuum gag as your primary; flat vector; default fonts; an explainer paragraph; a single ratio with no wallpaper crops; a zip. Submit two genuinely different variants and mark one primary. One winner.