i really doubt the robot/facility was pre-set to just kick the only successful test subject out the door as soon as they confirmed everything was working correctly lol, i 100% believe the robot let its ingrained 3 Laws the old-world robots still abided by override any other shady shit and, true to the 3 Laws, #1 took priority over everything else... meaning the orders it received were so shady that it had to not only ignore #2, but also violate #3 with extreme prejudice just to make sure that nothing bad happened to the poor kid (and a lifetime of potential trauma was basically considered not even a consequence compared to the other possible outcomes lol)- whether it was out of emotion or simple programming priority or both, that can be up to personal interpretation imo, but i like to think that it shows that this single-success eternal child program was a serious fluke & even if the robots aren't considered to have "real" emotions in this world then it must've considered the completely untested mind-overwrite shit statistically overwhelmingly closer to straight-up murder than anything else, these fools' plan was hilariously harebrained & likely diabolical to the point of seeming like parody