This paper is a plea for involving creative writers in the development
process of robot identities. Writers for theatre, film, games or ’old-
fashioned’ novels have the gift of bringing a fictional character to
life on blank paper. These characters can often move us. If we want
to develop rich and layered robot identities, we need to involve
creative writers. Not only for developing the robot identity itself,
but also for developing the operating system that manages the
robot identity, and we even see a task for writers in the form of
guardianship of the created robot identity
