[Huh. He never thought of it like that, since it was simply how it was in his world. There weren't other intelligent species, or at least that they knew of.]
I couldn't have said it better.
[The fact that she didn't sound at all horrified to think of a robot as someone to be respected already put her a little bit on his good side. It leaves him wanting to know more, if those robots were accepted by people, if they had to run away when first created, but he keeps it to himself, at least for now.]