Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16502426-20131101024335/@comment-7622429-20131102153416

Maki Kuronami wrote: If she's hiding it, she's not hiding it well enough. Because I already thought she was a robot when she didn't stand up. Then she Slendermans in front of Weiss.

A non-robot theory is that Penny grew up with little to no human contact, so she's worse than even Jaune and Ruby in terms of social skills. One possible evidence is when she explodes into a ball of happiness after Ruby became 'friends' with her.

(Also, please tell me 'wired' was intentional...)

Most "Trying to not act like a robot" characters (usually female) are not obvious to the in-universe characters. From a meta perspective, however, she's basically trying too hard that it warps right back into 'I AM A ROBOT'. Yeah,it's either too obvious and they know it or not,or it isn't and they know it or not. Think Lopez and Church from RvB. Lopez shows obvious signs of being a robot to all except the most simple-minded of individuals (and Caboose) and knows this,whilst Church wasn't even aware himself of his status as an artificial being,and most people probably didn't think of him as one until it was eventually revealed.