Are we humans actually just sophisticated robots that believe we need to believe in a higher power?

No. We're just sophisticated apes that believe we need a higher power to guide us. He also helps us avoid our irrational fears of death with just as irrational fairytales.

There's a special place in 'hell' for the asshats who convince good people this crap is real by using the loss of their loved ones to reinforce it.

no, we are not robots, or animals either like some people think.

We are created by God whether you choose to believe or not.

There is a Creator (God) and when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, the Creator becomes your Father and you are saved.

Yea kinda like a robot that needs its memory saved by Christ.

No robots are rational and only respond to input that directly stimulates their electronic circuits. Sort of the ideal atheist, eh.

Apparently not, otherwise you wouldn't be an atheist. The existence of atheists, particularly so many of them, categorically proves your question false.

If the robots are sophisticated enough to have free will, perhaps.

No, we have moral awareness and must face the Judgement.

NO