If I were to re-tell Ovid's Metamorphoses: Deucalion and Pyrrha. I would make it an apocalyptic story: Instead of the new people being born of stone, they would be robotic. We could have had a robotic army that the world decided wasn't good for us so they tried to shut down the program but the robots overpowered us and wiped us all out except for two people. However, in the process, the robots also destroy themselves because they are too much like us. The last two actual humans on earth end up teaching some robots a new way to live and, together, they all re-create the world.
Instead of a Flood, we're swamped in the unstoppable wave of technology.
Then we move into a world devoid of life except those whom have taken the necessary precautions and adapted to the harsh environments.
Two survivors happen to meet and neither fully trusts the other at first. It is only after they see each other bleed (and perhaps make a choice a robot wouldn't make) that they decide they are the last two people on Earth.
There is a very old floppy disc that is not compatible with the newest technology. They have to find a really old computer in a museum that hasn't been totally ransacked by the robots. When they finally do find a compatible computer, they have to read ancient instructions on how to access the information. They finally get it to play. On it, a professor tells the two survivors how to re-wire the program so that they have a chance of living in peace.
They find some surviving robots and implement the new program, the robots become humanoid and thus a new creature is born.
The improved robots go fourth and change the programs in all surviving bots and then humans and bots alike learn to live in harmony.
(Deucalion and Pyrrha: Image Source)
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