[And here's a light smack behind the head.] Yes I know what robots are. But we also have automatons back home. Machinery with magic infused in them, more or less. Moving statues. I've fought a bunch of those before.

I don't know how they could have infused our powers though but that could explain why we only have part of them? But don't you think our friends from the other side would know if we were robots? They would've figured it out when they died, I think.