I like BEL/S from Open Sorcery! Magitech AI firewall/antivirus who handles spiritual threats like poltergeists and there being fear elementals in people's rooms. The Steamworld series is like 98% robots, but they're mostly steam-powered robots
I see Steamworld is Nintendo, so I assume they're kid-friendly. Open Sorcery's definitely going on my list, but an eight-year-old might be a little young? How approachable is it for a littlie? How old are children really we just don't know
oh, yeah, hmm open sorcery has a little swearing and stuff, maybe play through it yourself a few times, see if you think it'd be OK for your cousin's maturity level? I mean, I read Animorphs at that age, this is less dark I think so it'll probably be fine but like if this eight-year-old is the sort to be really really bothered by some of the subject matter it brings up (like, pretty much everything to do with the Hungry Ghost), then don't give him Open Sorcery EDIT: or like, if you're uncomfortable giving an eight-year-old media that includes some swearing also acquire steam version because publishing stuff to the app store is such a massive pain that the author hasn't published the sequel/DLC Jingle BEL/S there yet
other robots: sw-seibellissima on tumblr has posted a week-long thing, one post a day, about short films with robots in them, and 6 of the 7 posts are here: http://sw-seibellissima.tumblr.com/tagged/scheduled-post and the other post is here: http://sw-seibellissima.tumblr.com/...anticipation-of-smash-and-grab-releasing-next there's also Baymax from Big Hero 6 and 7723 from Next Gen
I was gonna recommend The Murderbot Diaries and the Imperial Radch series, but if it’s for an 8 year old then probably not :(
