What do you think robots are demons or heroes?

Tomorrow, I'm supposed to have time to learn English with English club's members. We've not met for about one month, so I'm looking forward to meeting and having a good time with them. Yes, I have a numbers of things that I want to talk and share with the members. :D
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Anyway, we usually learn English through an article we had picked up. Tomorrow's article is " Robots: Demons or heroes?" This time I suggested the article to the members.
According to the article, Japanese tend to think that robots are friendly, kind and helpful, but Westerners don't do that. Of course, they regard robots as helpful things and enjoy benefits that such technology can bring, at the same time, they equate the robots rather with remoteness and coldness. For example, HAL in " 2001: A Space Odyssey" and Doraemon or Tetsuwan Atom( Astro Boy), they show the characteristics.

Uh....I don't know whether Westerners tend to think like that, but I can say that Japanese have a close affinity with Doraemon and Tetsuwan Atom(Astro Boy).