The mechanical counterpart to Our Monsters Are Different. Issues include;

• What are they?: Are they sapient? If souls exist do they have them? Can they earn them if they don't?
• Where are they from?: Did they make themselves? Did they overthrow humanity? Did humanity deserve it?
• How are they created?: Are they made of metal with silicon chips for brains? Are they artificially produced organic entities? Were they once completely biological? Are they made of Nanomachines?
• Why were they created?: Were they slaves? Did they evolve by accident from lesser machines? Are they from space?
• What do they do?: Crush Kill Destroy for whatever reason? Make war? Make love? Twist the Smurfette Principle even further? Maybe they're somewhat overqualified for their job?

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Examples *Rolling Updates are in effect*

• The earliest example of an entity described as a robot (the term originates from a Czechoslovakian word meaning "slave") appears in Rossums Universal Robots, where they're organically grown and eventually Turned Against Their Masters (not that it does them too much good).
• Isaac Asimov's robots had the positronic brain and the Three Rules; up until him all robots were chaotic and turned on their masters. Now his depiction is what "Our Robots Are Different" than.
• Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy includes an army of Robots that are inhabited by (copies of?) the personalities of dead people who previously uploaded themselves to a living habitats nueral strata.
• Futurama's robots run the full spectrum, which they're free to do as a comedy.
• Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex -- Tatchcoma: Mini Mecha, Spider Tank, and Think Tanks and Bioroids.
• Superman's or Victor Von-Doom's Robot Me