We can only agree on robot rights after we discover if robots can be made "sentient".  Or we if discover or affirm that "sentience" is an illusion crated by "self aware" computation, or specific computation....  Otherwise robots are tools...,(reply>), The problem is that people will deny that robots are sentient because they use the narrative logic that “humans made machines therefore they are just components”. It would require humans to acknowledge when something happens in your shift of consciousness. The problem could be that due to our human disposition, we might be territorial and therefore want to make the machine lower than us, therefore becoming like wolves and forcing them into a pack position. If robots are just tools, that’s like only living in the 2nd Dimension.