>>8764089Or, since we built them in the first place, just build drone models? The Cylons were fighting us because members of their AI population decided we should be killed for not respecting them (classic Frankenstein's Golem/Daddy issues).
We clearly had the tech - the only reason we didn't is because the original writers never thought of it and in the new show they didn't have the industry for it (what with the homeworlds being taken over).
To those asking about plating: one character killed one with a length of pipe so "not great". Characters regularly killed squads of toasters with sidearms. Realistically the best way would be to steal some AI for ourselves and create a virus (which eventually happened, sort of) because the only real apparent benefit the toasters had was numbers. The things aren't exactly terminators, they're not going to walk through a police station worth of firepower calmly.