Hey, that was a pretty good story.
Is it just me, or is the robot kind of a jerk?

No he is a jerk. Also his existance conflicts with what we were always told about Superman escaping Krypton - that the rocket was big enough for
both Kal-El and his mother but his mother desides to remain by Jor-El's side and right afterword Krypton dies. Of course when you got right down to it much of what Superman saw about Krypton conflicted with what Superboy had to deal with.