I'm sorry for your sister Groucho
! I hope that she'll be fine very soon
!!
For the recharghing station I suggest to add something from B-Movies, like those big metal switches with the wooden handle in the middle and some lightnings over the glass cover/dome for her, my idea is that a lightning would give life to her.
Somewhere should be some word in Hebrew language, maybe אמת, 'truth' , in the legend of the Golem (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem ) it's a phrase that would keep the Golem animated when written on the forehead...
About movies I suggest Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", the name of the gynoid in the movie is Futura