You know why?
Yep. Exactly right. There are not enough robots.
Robots raise story telling (esp. movie making) to a higher level. Not so much androids - though those are kind of neat - I'm talking about the kind that look like trash cans or have tank treads instead of legs. But robots should always have eyes and it's best if they have eyelids, too.
Because robots need to be humanized a little - not too much, though. It allows the author to draw parallels between the two beasts, but also maintain a distinction between them. This distinction is precisely what makes robot fiction the highest form of literature presently available (scientists are working on robot meta-fiction or meta-robot fiction, but that's still a decade or two away from being ready for consumer use). The moments in literature or film when we see a robot become sentient or understand what makes us human are the most important moments in literature or film.
Books or movies that are based on robot fiction rarely win awards because everyone recognizes the superiority of the genre and purposely excludes them out of fairness for the rest of the works.
Robot fiction allows us to externalize the human experience and distill its very meaning. It renews our faith in art. The post-human nature of the genre pushes us closer to the life the Greek philosophers wanted us to live. We are closer to the Platonic ideal of life itself than any point in history before us. Because of robot fiction, we are living in the greatest moment that has ever happened.
