You are sorely mistaken good sir. Robots are mechanical kaiju. The history of kaiju film is deeply rooted in using the fantastic and large to discuss large ideas. King Kong is a tale of Colonial trauma and violence returning to the Imperial Core. Godzilla is about processing the grief of Fat Man and Little Boy with a steely resolve to never allow such tools of terror to be allowed to surface again - a repudiation of Operation Paperclip's goals and methods. The Day The Earth Stood Still and Them! depict an American anxiety over the violent methods of US Imperialism and deem that society nigh irredeemable. Even the high camp of late Showa Godzilla represents the transformation of Japanese relationships with splitting the atom - now a symbol of progress and hope for a more enlightened future where problems can be solved collaboratively
The appeal of the robot expands on the kaiju framework. If humanity is formed in the image of God, then what is a machine formed in the image of humanity? What does it mean for our simulacra of the divine to be used as a weapon? What does it mean when we force a person to pilot such a device; moulding a living image of the heavens into a mere tool of death? We have the capacity for boundless creativity, boundless love, boundless joy and yet our imagination bows down to the golden calf of the RX-78-2. Mazinger Z can bestow the power of a god or a devil. Guiron is a kitchen knife.
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