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I'm not massively worried about AI robots taking over the world, simply because of the number of joules they require to move their limbs.
Okay - I'm a little worried about AI coming to get us. Rob Miles has done his best on Youtube to convince everyone that a thinking machine isn't inherently interested in being friendly, and that it could easily out-play us at any game you can imagine.
Despite the terrifying inevitability of AI being super-smart, I see holes in the story that I've never seen addressed. Perhaps they're behind the paywalls for these technologies.
Atlas - Boston Dynamics' 150cm robot who can perform backflips, drive, and looks like the drug-addicted cyborg in Robocop II - weighs 80kg. I don't know exactly how long he has to charge himself before doing a backflip, or just walking, but I'm confident that the energy required for it to walk a single step will be far more than a human requires.
When we picture AI commanding robot armies, we're usually picturing something like the introduction to Terminator, with drone robots, walking robots, et c., matched against humans. But if robots require ten times the energy to take a single step, it's more reasonable to imagine ten times the humans fighting them, and that's if we assume robots have taken over half the planet from the outset.