in futurama ... nothing new to see here

This is ABI Research (not affiliated with Intel). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABI_Research

So in this particular case Intel is not reporting wild benchmarking results

The group behavior you are talking about is possibly because of evolutionary programming so that the species or a smaller group can survive. imo. Looking at robots through the same viewpoint is wrong.

If you could program any law into a robot, and Asimov's law places the humans well being above that of a robot, then the robot will not get this group-feeling of "us vs. them".

Yet, there are scenarios that still cause a robot to break the first law according to Asimov.