What are robots? Are they things or technological objects that we can use or even abuse as we decide and see fit? Or is it the case that robots can or even should be something like a person, i.e., another subject who would need to be recognized as a kind of Other with some legitimate claim on us? This chapter investigates and seeks to respond to these questions. It begins by demonstrating how we typically resolve such questions by way of a moral and legal decision-making protocol that has deep roots. It then details how social robots and other seemingly intelligent artifacts effectively interrupt or resist efforts at both reification and personification, rendering robots and similarly situated interactive artifacts something other, i.e., something does not quite fit or easily accommodate the existing order of things. In response to these documented difficulties, the final part of the chapter evaluates three possible modes of response that can be taken-up and operationalized as we struggle to integrate these technologies into human society and culture.