"It would have been very amiss for the programmers of these robots to have left out some sort of function for that," Webmind answers.

"But at the same time, given how much this planet has supposedly changed over time, I would not be surprised. Perhaps adding something that does not strictly require new coding for the robots to use would be prudent."

Because who was to say the robots would even accept it? There did not seem to be so much as a USB port through which to install software, in any case.