That is, nothing can either harm or help the robot. Human beings, however, have certain needs which must be met in order to continue life. To fail to meet those requirements will lead to death, which negates our reality here as we know it. Human beings, unlike the robot, now have a standard by which to judge the fitness or unfitness of conditions to the goal of maintaining life. They will need shelter, water, food, possibly some tools.
Animals have inherent in their form their means of survival.
Human beings do not - what we have instead is a mind that we have to use to meet those requirements. We can't curl up in a ball in a bush like a bird can and expect to survive a blizzard, because we don't have warm feathers - we must create shelter, using our minds. So the first requirement to our survival is the free use of our minds. Anything that helps us in that process is good for us, because it aids our survival. Anything that hinders us in that process is bad for us, because it inhibits our survival.