WTH are the robots ET is referring to?

[Bugsy]

As shown in the image below

 

[HobbyTrading]

Probably search engines which are updating their databases.

 

[Overnight]

Makes me think of Magna's red eyeball. And pod-bay doors.

 

[FortuneTeller]

The dang things are checking out various threads and forums here at ET. Probably the Russians and Chinese.

 

[Bugsy]

The dang things are checking out various threads and forums here at ET. Probably the Russians and Chinese.

All the Chinese bots hang out on Twitter and Reddit. It's their entire userbase.