Oh, there are so so many ways in which sci-fi robots are annoying. Probably the worst overall category for me is the "robot = metal man" trope where a robot is

Oh, there are so so many ways in which sci-fi robots are annoying. Probably the worst overall category for me is the "robot = metal man" trope where a robot is just meant to be a person in a clanky metal suit. They do this in so many ways; the "battery going flat = tearjerker death scene" thing as if people who build sentient robots somehow don't know about flash drives, the "robot can only be in one place at one time" as if wifi isn't a thing, I could go on for a while.