An earth in the year 2040, where advancements in robotics allow the Multi Moveable Systems corporation to produce and sell small helper robots called shinki.
Type: Blossom Since the Multi Moveable Systems corporation- or MMS caught wind of other worlds, they encouraged their affiliated shinki manufacturing companies to up production, that way they could start selling shinki units offworld.
In general, it may no longer be out of the ordinary to see shinki shops on larger worlds with higher populations and technology levels, where they can easily sell more units. However due to their nature as sapient beings once activated, other worlds might take issue with the buying and selling of shinki, this was addressed in a law passed on the shinki world of origin: In their inactive state, shinki are sold as electronic products. In their active state, shinki have many rights similar to any other living being, but by programming tend to latch onto one specific person they view as their 'master'.
Career shinki; or shinkis that work for a corporation rather than a single owner may be seen performing tasks such as flight stewardesses or restaurant waiters off of their world of origin.
Some cities may even end up with small 'Shinki Cities' emerging beneath them, in which shinkis without masters hijack rogue power flows to maintain themselves and live independantly, without anyone telling them what to do.