The Robot’s violet-putty complexion doesn’t help much.
The Robot at this stage, acts the way some autistic people will do if you speak to them or ask them a question:
Robot turns ‘her’ head away from the speaker, while calibrating the answer.
Robot’s eyes wiggle around as it calculates a proper response.
This Robot’s responses are usually predictable bordering on trite, diplomatically vague and overly polite. Not all new Robots are polite.
Robot seems to reflect the intentions, attitude or tone of the Human speaker. If you sound sad asking a question, the Robot will focus on that presumption or route of sadness, and reflect it back to you.
Studies have shown that people get weirded out if an android becomes almost indistinguishable from a real human being.
I agree that violet is probably not a skin colour, but they found that people tend to accept androids more if they are unqestionably distinguishable from a human being.