That was fun! Just a couple of minor notes.
Your psuedo-terminal formatting, while thematic, made parts of the story much harder to read than necessary. Similarly, I'd recommend Italics rather than ALL CAPS for the robot dialog--all caps is surprisingly hard to read.
I also wish you'd managed to fit some of the actual working together into your submission, rather than just giving a footnote about it. The 1k word limit is pretty challenging, though, so I understand why that didn't happen.
Definitely one of the better submissions I've read so far!