RWBY Volume Seven

[Bob Schroeck]

Nope, that's not it. This was a late 60s or early 70s-vintage novel; I remember checking it out from the county library for summer reading while I was in high school. The robot was wandering the world wondering why he was different -- one way was that he dreamt; he had a repeating dream of being on a conveyor belt feeding into a furnace or something else destructive. He finally found out what it meant when he found (returned to?) his "parents", the couple who had built him and (using means I do not remember) had each gifted him with half their soul so that he would have a full soul -- the dream was about the eventual return of all souls to where they come from at the end of life. And now that I think of it, I think the novel started with the robot running away from his "parents" for some reason.