Writing Androids: How Human Should One Make A Robot?

[R.]

Hi. Hope everyone's doing well and writing lots in quarantine!

So... here's some context.

I'm writing a book about androids. It's set in a far away, Cyberpunk-style future. The androids mentioned are unknown to the world. They are kept in secret by a certain technology manufacturing company who has figured out how to create fully sentient machines. But in order for the company to prevent these androids from running about and going too crazy, they have restricted the free will of these humanoid robots by giving them a purpose and an occupation within the company. If these androids fail to live up to their purpose, they are destroyed because the company views them as useless assets.

When I started writing the android characters in my WIP project, I wrote them as extremely human. They had feelings like a human, thoughts like a human, speech patterns like a human... Hell! One of the main characters is a child android with imagination and creativity features like a human!

But they have interfaces behind their eyes and they can do things like access the internet and store massive amounts of information.

I don't explain how they are free to make decisions on their own because that technically doesn't exist (yet!) and I don't know how...

But that's besides the point here.

I'm wondering whether I have made them TOO human.

I want to tone down their humanity but yet still maintain their very distinct personalities.

Tips?

[Andres]

Try to stay away from emotional words; I feel, I want, desire etc.
Replace these thoughts with logical thinking. Give sound reasoning behind their decision making rather than human impulse.