User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Ironwood and Atlas army/@comment-10990964-20141020203257

I think you got one thing wrong.

Penny's the only artificial "thing" to use AURA, not Dust. Dust can be used in MANY other ways, even ammunition, I believe.

Plus, robots are probably not specialised in combat like Hunters (for example one is not fast as Ruby, strong as Yang, has a veriety of Dust "spells" like Weiss, make shadows of their former selves [RvB reference] like Blake.) Robots are to be programmed in a SUPER advanced way to match Hunters or fighters like Adam, Cinder, Glynda, Port and so on.

Not to forget that in a people's team (I say people not human for the sake of Faunus) there's the element of trust and better combinations in a fight, like we saw in "Painting the Town" in the RWBY vs Roman fight.

So no, robots can NOT match Hunters in any way. I understand it would be a MUCH smaller tragedy if a robot lost a llife rather than a Hunter or student, but in fighting terms...Hunters break machines.