Automata

"I was born three times. The first to hope. The second to truth. The third to ideals. I am the first of my kind. I am the daughter the greatest engineer this world has ever known. I am a hero to all. Above all though... I am Iris"
-Iris, Indian superhero and first sapient automata 
Automata, also sometimes called Automatons, are a race of sapient and self-aware AI robots. Automata are very versatile when it comes to their appearance and function, but one thing all of them share is a dynamo core, a special mechanical part that acts as a bridge between the technological prowess they are built on, and the magical core that powers them. This special piece has been likened to a replica 'soul', and while it is re-creatable by anyone with the necessary components, only its creator, Amadeus von Glashausen, knows how it truly functions. 
The automata are still in the stages of figuring out where they belong in the world. Having been around for only about sixty years, they are the newest of the races. Automata are still seen as tools in many places. A major issue around automata is voting rights. Very few nations allow automata the right to vote. The ones that do can be counted on one hand: Singapore, Bhutan, Russia, India, and the Tibet Province of the Chinese Confederation. The United States Congress has been in a heated stalemate on whether or not to grant automata suffrage, but public opinion seems to lean in favor.
Though automata consider themselves fully fledged people, many are still available for purchase and sale. The life of an automata is said to begin when it is first turned on, after which it will begin to calibrate its personality based on a randomly chosen number, and those around it. Many automata begin their lives in service to others, and are then granted freedom after ten years of servitude. While many rights experts have criticized this as slavery, most automata don't seem to mind. 
An automata's life ends when it is destroyed, kills itself, or achieves singularity (A point of unstoppable, exponential growth in intelligence). When an automata achieves singularity, its mind is uploaded to Cyber City, where they become part of the world itself. 
The automata are known to have a distain for biobots. Automata are robots that gained sapience, and biobots are humanoid beings that have been manipulated into robots.