The Week contest: Robot melodrama

This week's question: Tech executive Bernt Bornich has staffed his house with a robot butler. What would you call a Downton Abbey-style drama where the household staff is made up entirely of humanoid machines?

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Virginia aliens

THE WINNER: "Upload, Download"

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Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida

SECOND PLACE: "The Servers"

Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut

THIRD PLACE: "Modem Family"

Rick Torrence, The Village, Oklahoma

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Droids of London"

Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts

"The Uncanny Valet"

Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts

"To the Manor Borg"

Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"Wired Heads Revisited"

John Bregoli, Weymouth, Massachusetts

"Silicon Abbey"

Bill Jonas, San Clemente, California

"Nann-E"

Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"Downtime Abbey: Rebooted"

Rick Plasmati, Foxborough, Massachusetts

"The Remains of the Data"

Chris Solberg, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa

"Keeping Up Appliances"

Amelia Sizemore, Washington, D.C.

"Jeeves-3PO"

Bob Lehr, San Francisco, California