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This episode hit a soft spot in my heart.

I sometimes give "life" to items that have no life whatsoever, but because I do this they become alive or real to me. Take my car for example: I gave her a name. Her name makes her real, thus to me, she is alive.

That machine in this episode made me feel sad. It may not feel pain, but it's programmed to have empathy to relate to humans. It may not be real, but it's enough to want it to have a good life, right?

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Andrew Hellebrand

The anime covers the first four of the six volumes published of the manga, with the concept having originally begun life as a short story that eventually became chapter three in the first volume. With the designs of the heads/faces of the autonomous robots in this episode I wonder if the game Horizon Zero Dawn and it's sequels took any indirect visual inspiration from the manga (HZD came out in February 2017, whereas the manga was serialized monthly from February 2014 to January 2018). I appreciated that Yuu mentally apologised when planting the explosives on the construction robot, showing her growth in understanding of both sentience outside of humans and the value of 'life'. The girls having decided to preserve the life of the fish & the well being of the smaller maintenance robot, at the expense of the larger construction robot, I feel is given the proper amount of seriousness and the melancholy vibes pervading the scene seems appropriate given the themes of the episode. The smaller robot is voiced by Yûki Kaji who has most famously voiced Eren Yeager in Attack on Titan and Kenma Kozume in Haikyuu!! (amongst many other roles) and he is also married to Ayana Taketatsu who you'd recognise from voicing Azusa Nakano in K-On!