How are we measuring sentient? As in the ablity to move, self start, and process information or the ability to think, feel, and reason?

Anyone else think the checklist is a little bloated?

This is purely incorrect.

The main difference of Super Robot and Real Robot is not in terms of these, the main difference is the Super Robot lacked a certain realism in it, which is pretty much you do not need fridge logic to figure it out that it is down right impossible. Real robots usually have justified means of existence, and most are military SF compared to totally unrealistic single man army the enemy is stupid enough to send in single units to fight against while not deploying its main supreme force on the rest of the world. Gunbuster is a clear example, which it contains a lot of elements of hot-blooded-ness, yet it contained a certain realism in it that it is a Super prototype (with little efficiency with its twin degeneracy generator since the mass production type got only 1 but still give a 80% fighting power) military use instead of a personal hobby. The sequel, Diebuster, however, is truely a super robot, where kids got to use and play with mechas that totally defies any known rules of physics just because they have special powers.

A super robot genre is super robot not because it got certain elements, but because it lacks of some. No matter how impossible the things happened in the show are, the fact that it can be reasonably justified in a more realistic way will make it a real robot series.