I was thinking you could build a factory or machine shop to produce two kinds of robot NPCs. One would be a bodyguard that would follow you around. You could use hotkeys to change it's mods like making it aggressive or attack who you just attacked. You could upgrade it will better weapons and armor as you get them. To keep it from being OP you could only use one at a time. The other would be androids who walk around your base. You could set them in one room or another. Most of them wouldn't do much outside of saying funny frases. They would more or less be for decoration.
Who needs a robotic bodyguard if you are inside an invicible giant mech? | well....UNLESS that robot has x-ray vision :>
Good idea but I'll still stick with my plan to build an army of creatures captured from various planets.
Besides from fighting, how bout some mining robots? you know, just place them on the ground and say "now you mine all the down until you find the wall of flesh you find some diamondz!