To substitute humans with machines in elderly care and companionship sounds as nonsensical in the best of cases and as an absolute lack of humanity in the worst. However, the advancements of robotics offer novel ways to understand what machines could do for the elderly, and perhaps it is time to re-think our established assumption that the elderly have no friends nor companions in social robots. This contribution aims to argue that the social acceptance and integration of social robots into elderly people’s lives could be supported by what the author calls “a right to robot” that every elderly person should have. This right to robot could also be our way to comply with our duty to the older generation to respect and ensure its autonomy and freedom for as long as possible and to provide this generation with the most advanced and novel ways to live one’s life independently and in line with individual preferences.