Are the Foot-Bots kind of pointless?

[neatoman]

So I just rewatched the episode in which they were introduced, so the excuse within the show was that they would be more useful than the human ninjas... Too bad that backfired, the human ninjas actually lasted longer in a fight.

And yeah I know the real life excuses are that you can chop up robots on a children's cartoon and the crew might have a nostalgia attachment to the robot ninjas from the FW series, but I always found the robots to be less interesting than the human ninjas and just because you can chop up a robot does not make the violence more exciting. They're not chopping up soldiers, just emotionless drones, so why pretend they're actually getting away with more violence when they really don't?