[ Rude, he was reading that! Strange gives Marc a 'what gives' sort of look, before temporarily abandoning his quest to be a nosy bitch. There's something more important to talk about now anyway: what the heck are these robots.

The explanation seems simple enough. It's less threatening if a machine looks like a person compared to a beast—and they would probably treat the machine better if it looked like a person compared to a carriage. But that offers up more questions: what would these machines do that would seem threatening?

A machine to sew a dress or replace a carriage probably would seem unthreatening no matter what the shape. But a machine designed for war or hospital work...less threatening certainly matters then. ]

If that is the case, why have them here? I can understand a nonthreatening machine in some circumstances, but absolutely nothing about this area seems threatening, [ said with a vague gesture to the cabana as a whole. ] Unless...whatever the threat was, it happened prior to our arrival.

[ it has not escaped Strange's notice that these machines are doing fuckall. ]