As a student of robotics, I find it to be the creepiest thread on the forum.
I can appreciate that, but I guess you also can figure out it's not really about robotics engineering or science. It is of course purely fiction and as far as my angel of it here, human relations put in another light. Perhaps in a
Science fiction point of view, industry robots are just
programmed machines while robots require something more. Manufactured
individuals with
independent artificial intelligence? A
quantum computer with an OS designed for empirical learning combined with biomechanical features? Incorporate cells with
mitochondrion to achieve robots working on Fanta (energy comes from the sugar) etc etc
I think it's fun and fascinating. The
Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator type of dumb killer machines isn't my thing though.