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it would be unequivocably a battle of human beings against machines for survival, and there wouldn't be any of this hippie navel-gazing.

The first Robot story was 'RUR' (Rossum's Universal Robots) a story by the Czech writer Karel Capek in the 1920's. This was followed by a series of pulp SF magazines in the 1930's with robots fighting against humans. This got repetitious and dull, until Isaac Asimov came up with the Three Laws of Robotics for his Robot stories, in which no Robot could hurt a human, and if you thought they did hurt a human, you were mistaken. These stories were much more interesting than the earlier stories.

This got repetitious and dull, until Isaac Asimov came up with the Three Laws of Robotics for his Robot stories,

I always loved Isaac Asimov. One of the best sci-fi books I've ever read was "I, Robot" (butchered by Hollywood, of course), which, as you probably know, was the collection of Asimov's robot/3 Laws short stories which pretty much all dealt with the interesting situations that could arise with the application of those 3 Laws. Also, the whole "Caves of Steel" series was excellent, which he tied together with the Foundation series. All good stuff. Does anyone write sci-fi like that anymore?