User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/Have We All Forgotten about that Golem?/@comment-5041507-20141018231434

As far as I'm concerned, until we learn otherwise, they're robots, just like the AKs and Spider Droid. I see no reason to assume that they're anything mystical or spiritual, considering that the most magical this show had gotten so far is Aura, and the Grimm. RWBY is pretty much science fiction so far. They haven't shown even the slightest hints of any true magic. We don't even know for sure if a soul is a quantifiable thing separate from Aura, or if Pyrrha was just spouting semi-religious propaganda. So yeah, they're robots, plain and simple. No need to think they're anything else, especially something that would break the bounds of science so definitively.