it's like this basically
Society at large: Robots are basically people and should be treated as people, but if you have to choose between the will of a robot and the will of a person, then the will of the person should always win out. It's reasonable to design robots specifically to fulfill exactly one niche to the point of physically designing their body to do that job and designing their personality to like doing that job because a happy slave is a good worker. If a robot must be destroyed to protect a human, so be it, we can always build another one to fill that role.
Dr. Light's perspective: My hope is that eventually intelligent robots will just be seen as people with different capabilities that society creates when we need to deal with situations that need to be solved but would be far too unsafe for humans to handle. They should be seen as just like humans, because it is clear that the situations we require them for are situations that need human-level intelligence, though many issues can be handled by simpler ones.
Dr. Wily's perspective: There's no point to treating robots like humans and any attempt to make them more like people is ridiculous because of fundamental differences in how they work and how they're born. It's just completely impractical. If you need a hammer, you don't create a hammer that can arbitrarily decide it doesn't like hammering nails, you just make a hammer. There are some situations in the world where the most practical way to solve the problem is to create a particularly intelligent artificial organism whose purpose is to fulfill a task, but you shouldn't treat it like a human, because humans are impossible to control and any amount of freedom you give them will eventually be used to foment rebellion.