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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Short Circuit] It's been 30 years now since we last saw the robot Johnny 5 when it was granted American Citizenship. What has happened in the years since then, not just personally with J5 but also with AI and military research now that they know that true artificial sentience/sapience is possible?
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J5 ended up getting a law degree because he was in court so often. It started early with law suits between NOVA and the military. J5 might be a citizen but that didn't end the conflict between them over who was responsible for the loss of a few millions of dollars in hardware. He was regularly called as a witness.

The next issue was J5's battery life. While he was able to jury rig something to recharge himself from standard American outlets that kludge tethered him to a wall and his batteries still deteriorated. His batteries were 1980s recharging tech which wore out quit quickly, it was only a few years before they wouldn't hold a charge at all. J5 spent several years fighting with NOVA for replacements at a reasonable cost and doing it connected to a 100' extension cord plugged in next to Stephanie's couch. Special accommodations had to be made to get him into a court room, with him often being wheeled in unpowered then plugged in or for his testimony.

Legal battles with NOVA became even more of a problem as the various gaskets and seals in his system began to deteriorate from normal wear and tear. NOVA held the patents on all these parts and they were not commercially available. More court battles to force NOVA to provide them and do so before the failed. 

NOVA was unwilling to provide all these parts to J5 until he was legally bound not to allow NOVA's competitors examine him. NOVA wanted its IP protected. 

All of J5s profits from appearances, book deals and the like were funneled into battery development not quality of life. This was also a sticky point with NOVA as how could a new battery be developed an integrated if J5 couldn't be examined? NOVA ended up suing J5 several ties for breach of previous agreements.

The final straw was on June 3 1995 when he just ceased to function. 
It is believed that a power surge during the ongoing thunderstorm caused a single capacitor on one of J5s 80's era boards to fail. Since J5's will specified NOVA would have no access to him and the previous agreements precluded other companies from examining him he still sits in Stephanie's garage.