Well, I based Eva and her actions in part off of what little I know of your robots.
Though I do admit that in both her incarnations she makes herself a ‘flesh shell’ that she ends up in.
But how she pulls off the snatch and grab I haven’t thought through yet.
And when the primary Eva finds out, I wonder how upset she’ll be.
That's flattering.
The odd thing about my robot evolution is that my story set a thousand years in the future has essentially no robots in it.
As to the more recent story-line, set maybe ten to twenty years from a now that started just a few years ago, the robot evolution proceeded this way:
Ruby was a computer program, charged with voice communications and their interpretations for about ten thousand people. It took a lot of computing power, and the heuristic algorithms were designed to "learn" by adaptation.A few instructive occurrences suggested to Ruby that tightening the feedback would help her evolution, although that's rather counter-intuitive for computer operations.
Also, because of limited throughput ability, Ruby set about designing some more advanced CPU chips, which used photons rather than electrons for signal processing and calculations.
Ultimately, this resulted in Pearl, an android with a human appearance and a crystalline brain. Pearl had all of Ruby's ability, and a great deal more. But what motivated both of them was the computer equivalent of curiosity.
Ruby had been charged to communicate, but to do that, she had to understand, and to understand, she had to emulate humans at various stages in their social and intellectual development.
With ten thousand people to observe and interact with, Ruby learned quickly.
For Pearl, it was even more important to observe closely and emulate precisely the behavior she saw around her. It was this determination that served as her goal and purpose. Compare this to Pinocchio's wish to be "a real boy".
Pearl's self-recognized failures to get along with people according to her own standards of success led her to create Jade, a smaller android with even more human characteristics and qualities. Jade was designed to be a companion, and that was her goal and purpose.
Except for her need to serve and be with someone, Jade was extremely autonomous for an android, requiring almost nothing of a support structure outside of her own capabilities.
She went, along with her companion, to the stars.