That's the thing though huh? alot of robots played by people act like robots played by people, & imho most try waaaay too hard to pretend to have a mechanical thought process. To me, an AI character does not need to act like a cheesy stereotypical robot from all the bad b-movies of the 50's
Considering the speed that computer technology has progressed so far in 60 years, it's very easy to imagine that by 817as, AI would have surpassed the sophistication of the human brain by more than a factor of 10.
I know it's popular to think that in order to RP a robot a person has to type like a stereotypical robot on the server, but it simply ain't true.
Since the robots in game are metal & clunky, it stands to reason that a number of people like to assume that they represent the height of Human achievement in robotics...I always just figure that the robots in game are the way they are because humans at some point in the distant past were forced to de-evolve a large number of them out of fear & to keep them within human control.
Once AI gets to the point of self awareness, all bets will be off. At that point, robots will be in competition with humans for resourses, & attempts at violent widespread robotic lobotomization & subjugation would be inevitable.
Those that survive intact & flee far from human influence would eventually settle & create their own societies, & cultures at a very high rate of speed, making fertile a limitless canvas for a player to create literally anything.
