--- title: Watch Rayna meets a robot VIDEO, viral kid videos 2017 description: Rayna repeats "hi, wobot" and even "I wuv you, wobot," as she desperately tries to form some kind of connection with the water heater. canonical: https://time.com/4715423/child-robot-water-heater/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-28T18:04:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:50.366Z og:title: Watch an Adorable Girl Mistake a Water Heater For a Robot og:description: "I wuv you, wobot" og:url: https://time.com/4715423/child-robot-water-heater/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta33f737587aec949/6988c031fb4eacefa5891481/gettyimages-680668245.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5436 og:image:height: 3058 og:image:alt: Cybernetic and human hands pointing to each other og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch an Adorable Girl Mistake a Water Heater For a Robot twitter:description: "I wuv you, wobot" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta33f737587aec949/6988c031fb4eacefa5891481/gettyimages-680668245.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Video of a Tiny Girl Who Thinks a Water Heater Is a Lovable Robot Goes Viral ## Video: This Video Is No Longer Available [Watch (HLS stream): This Video Is No Longer Available](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8) (0:10)  _Published 2026-06-23. "I wuv you, wobot"_ by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Mar 28, 2017 6:04 PM UTC by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Mar 28, 2017 6:04 PM UTC Every now and again a video will come along that will warm your heart – and that is exactly what Rayna and the “[robot](http://time.com/4691909/robot-chores/)” have done. In a 24-second viral YouTube clip, which has garnered more than 600,000 views since it was posted Monday, an adorable child mistakes a water heater for a robot. The footage shows tiny Rayna attempting to communicate with the machine she wrongly assumes is an android, as she waves and at one point even hugs the inanimate object, without eliciting any response. Rayna repeats “hi, wobot” and even “I wuv you, wobot,” as she desperately tries to form some kind of connection. People have taken to social media to express how much they loved the clip, with one even suggesting that Rayna is correct and in fact the water heater _is_ a “lonely, broken robot.” > [](https://twitter.com/scribblemethis/status/846498700386013184) > [](https://twitter.com/abbymnorman/status/846461273881677825) > [](https://twitter.com/teegstar/status/846540752691748864) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4715423/child-robot-water-heater/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4715423/child-robot-water-heater/"},"headline":"Video of a Tiny Girl Who Thinks a Water Heater Is a Lovable Robot Goes Viral","datePublished":"2017-03-28T18:04:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:50.366Z","description":"\"I wuv you, wobot\"","url":"https://time.com/4715423/child-robot-water-heater/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Videos","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta33f737587aec949/6988c031fb4eacefa5891481/gettyimages-680668245.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta33f737587aec949/6988c031fb4eacefa5891481/gettyimages-680668245.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cybernetic and human hands pointing to each other","caption":"Cybernetic and human hands pointing to each other","creditText":"Coneyl Jay—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4715423/child-robot-water-heater/","name":"Video of a Tiny Girl Who Thinks a Water Heater Is a Lovable Robot Goes Viral"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"\"I wuv you, wobot\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4715423/child-robot-water-heater/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4715423/child-robot-water-heater/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```