When I saw the new mech-looking companion, I immediately thought of something like this.
A Chance Meeting:
(The following is to be read in the style of a Rom-Com movie trailer)
Like most abandoned sentient constructions, R0Dee the Rampaging Robot had resigned himself to forever killing all humans. But a chance meeting with a peculiar small furry creature opened his heart to love.

Incidentally, I had the Flight of the Conchords song “The Humans are Dead” running through my head the entire time I was working on this.