If robots are programmed to create other robots and are programmed to avoid harm and attune to find resources - they are conscious and have free will. Define consciousness and free will.

Consciousness is the internal subjective experience that one has.

Ehm... Slaves do not possess free will. That is why they are slaves.

Slaves possess free will. They do not possess freedom.

And why do not they enjoy freedom? Because they do not have enough free will to fight for it. Read Harriet Beecher Stowe classics on psychology of slavery. Hence, if you not command yourself, you subdue to the other. No one forcibly keeps those guys and gals at factories.