Thread:B1bl1kal/@comment-34126260-20180120222943/@comment-1705775-20180121072248

yes, rarely a species but it can happen if they are portayed as "metal people" rather than robots.. however by the very nature of machines almost all of them will be creations of another species or individual.

look at Robots, in that film robots function like a species but they must of been made by someone at some point - however the AI is advanced enough they may as well be "alive".

Data from Star Trek, for example, is seen as "alive" despite being a machine, as is Vision.. case by case.