What if a robot develops free will?

Not sure if you're a Star Trek: Voyager fan, cause that question had been debated on that show. Is a android/robot really developing free will, or developing what it was programmed to develop in to. I tend to lean towards them not having free-will rights. It's a machine. A advanced one, but still a machine.

I WOULD ROMANCE IT...WE COULD BE QUITE THE POWER COUPLE.

Then you delete it and try again. A robot with free will defeats the whole point of making a robot.

Do you think a phone should have rights? Its smarter than you.

There is no free will, only causality and unknowability.

Peopel and animals have souls
Robots and machines DONT

If a machine has free will, we will never be able to prove for sure that it has it. If, hypothetically we could prove that it did have free will, we will need to read really closely what does free will mean in the first place.
Free will won't come in the type of machines that we are imagining. Machines made of metal and plastic, made of software, based even loosely on the Turing model, whether even if it were to be steeped in nanotechnology, free will will not occur.
The first machine to have free will will be a thing unimaginable to us.