Story Idea
About one million years from now, a race of robots exists on a planet. The story begins shortly after a virus has deleted much of the memory of the planet. A committee is formed to analyze the catastrophe, determine what empirical work needs to be done and create robots to fix it. One robot is created specifically to rescue what knowledge has been lost.
Unable to find any traces of the knowledge that seems to be lost as all data is corrupted, the robot attempts to perform physical and chemical experiments, and archeological and philosophical analysis to determine the origins of their robot society. His experiments are inconclusive, as the possibility of a sentient chemical life form creating them to test out new planets never occurs to him. He then personally concludes that the only rational conclusion is that all existence is an illusion or a dream of some sort.
Also there are ninjas.
Ironically, he didn't see it coming.