I think that the Robot will not have such an in built desire - if it is based on reasoning then the machine might actually be more reasonable. In other words there is enough room for both Humans and Robots.
The point is that our gadgets become more powerful and more potent as weapons; so as we have a good history of past abuses it is sort of easy to extrapolate to the future.
What is still don't understand: would intelligence be an inhibiting factor - like more reasonable Humans are supposedly less destructive; Maybe the same goes for machines.
I don't buy the argument about competition for resources - With enough effort you can always stretch it so that there is enough for everybody/everything.
Another interesting aspect: once upon a time people would become very agitated when discussing politics (that was when we still had ideological differences and when people thought that their stance does matter); In our time we have discussions about sci-fi instead of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
And there is the Golem, which is even earlier.
Also i find it funny how much attention this theoretical problem receives, when we don't have a good explanations on what intelligence is and how it works.