Having worked with robotics in the semiconductor industry for over 10 years, I have to say that they're only as smart as the humans that programmed them.

We'd get summoned by various operators that a robot was "freaking out" thereby assigning some sort of intelligence quality or trait to a dumb machine. It always turned out that a previous Mr. Fixit had screwed up the program or tweaked some hardware setting to cause the problem.

Reminds me of the old saying from Navy electronics school. "Garbage in, garbage out." We even had students that would say, whenever they got the wrong answer in math classes, "There must be something wrong with my garbage can". Referring to their calculator.

So no, I don't think that robots will acquire intelligence. If they ever start acting up, there's always the ON/OFF switch.

Sort of reminds me of the Y2K scare.