I am addicted to robots from the first day of CoV beta. I love their animations. I love the way they bounce along. I like how they shrug off skull and hellion gunshots. I love deflection shield has toxic resistance. I like how the robots don't get slept by the Lost. I love when they run into melee intending to bash the foe, but at the last minute a ranged shot recharges and they stop with their robot gun aimed at the head of the foe and just put a cap in it instead. I love flying robots. I love robots with storm the most. The robots don't complain about knockback, they don't mind when I grumble about their knockback. Eventually the mastermind anticipates where the foes will be, even orchestrating the position with gale and hurricane. Then, knockback is "knock-against-a-wall", total mitigation. If there were an AT that was Protector Bot, I would play it. Defense, Stun, tohit debuff, good damage, and heals, too, it would be a great defender. I love the mighty Assault bot, a very good blaster boss minion.
I love Robots...
... oh and Storm whoo boy.
Triumphant Defenders Forever
Psylenz FF/Psi, ArticQuark Storm/Rad, Symon BarSisyphus Bots/psn, Max VanSydow Thugs/Dk, Cyclone Symon Bots/stm, Blue Loki Ice/Cd, Widow 46526
HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.
there are a couple reasons i chose bots. primary reason, my necro-poison was very difficult to level, so i switched out to bots/FF tll i could get the hang of the whole MM thing. bots/FF is a TON easier to play than just about any other combo...it's a walk-away type setup. the secondary reason is i came up with a name i wanted to use, and a story behind it.
toon name = zyzzyx
asault bot name = X
heal bot 1 name = -y-
heal bot 2 name = _y_
minion bot 1 name = z
minion bot 1 name = -z-
minion bot 1 name = _z_
so the bots "spell" out my toon's name, because they are part of the great collective "i" come from. somewhere else, not here. far far away. and all that jazz. 
and now that he's been 50 for a long time, ive been working on my necro-poison and he's much more fun to play because i understand how to play MM a little better than i did when i made him.
Although they do more unresisted damage than any of the other pets, and I seem to be stuck on them, I actually don't care for robots much. Mainly because most people hate to team with bot mms. In open areas they all do a good bit of knockback and can send things bouncing far away from melee and out of area effect powers. The burn patch has a fear effect which sends even more mobs running in all directions. They are the largest and most obstructive of the mm pets, making it hard to see or get past them (not as much as a problem as it used to be, but still a problem). All of this can actually prolong fights to the point a team would have been better off with no one.
Solo most of those issues are far less of a problem, all the knockback and fear can be considered mitigation, although it can still be quite irritating when everything has run or been knocked out of your dark patch or freezing rain, or what have you.
- Justisaur