Ye know Lookie I was thinking about something. I know MrD doesn't want to have advanced AI in the story at this stage, so he's free to tell me I'm being daft if he wants, but if it was possible for someone to like vampires, or Jedi, or superheroes enough that the Awakening actually turned them into that which they liked, isn't it possible it could have turned someone who loved robots into a robot? 

I know its not quite what you want, but it does allow you to play as a robot, just one that doesn't have the tricky AI involved.