What are we left to do when technology just happens to do everything for us? Future visions depict life in smart-homes where technology deals with all our chores and reads our deepest wishes before we are even aware of them. But is living in such an environment actually desirable? How might people appropriate their smart-home technology to regain control? Bots systems for home robot assistants that collaborate to make life alone a little more interesting. The system consists of specialist agents (bots), a main control unit (the brain) and room speakers (the senses). Bots are modular artificial intelligences that focus on a single task (e.g. online shopping, spying on the neighbours whereabouts or organising surprise presents). The group dynamics that arises from the bots placed in the main unit might change our relationship with the technology to something more alike having a group of pets: never entirely predictable but always succeeding or failing with the best of intents.