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A huge problem with drones, among many others, is how susceptible they are to antagonist sympathizing. Players observing the round can identify a traitor, join the round as a ghost drone, then intentionally allow themselves to be emagged. This behavior can be hard to identify without constant monitoring, and even then drones can easily feign innocence or claim they were just messing around with the crew. Drones are not permitted to interact with the crew by law, but drones are protected by a "cuteness factor". It's socially acceptable for a drone to beep and ping its way onto someone's head as a hat, then hang around the bar like a robotic cat. Furthermore, drones have a huge incentive to get emagged. Emagged drones have a very wide variety of tools, and are capable of bringing the station to its knees from the amount of harass and direct damage they're capable of. Getting emagged as a drone is like being given the keys to the antagonist candy store. This is highly appealing to many players, for self evident reasons. In order to combat antagonist sympathizing with drones, I suggest that emagging a drone should kick the player out of the drone shell, and replace it with an observer. Traitors still get their overpowered murder robot, but drones would avoid suspicious players in fear of getting emagged. We shouldn't reward drones that allow themselves to be emagged.

After seeing a recent round in which a maint drone walked right up to nukies, allowed itself to be emagged and then yelled "FUCK YEA!" once it was, I can't support this enough. Personally, I don't think they should be emaggable at all. Most of their power comes from the fact that the interface is limited and in many situations you literally cannot target a drone. They can be hidden entirely by tables, and you really can't get them via the floor menu as long as they're moving. Something being powerful due to the interface is just poor design. But, since they are emaggable, at this will prevent the worst abuses.

GET UP. GOOD BOY.

Bread, pizzas, cakes, maybe pies too. I once accidentally put wirecutters in a pizza while trying to slice it with tools, since knives are hard to come by. It may be only one tool per food item as well.

+1 To add, I've also seen it suggested that something similar happens during shadowling enthrallment to discourage everyone and their mother running into maints when they're called out. Dissimilar to the shadowling idea, drones are a (for all intents and purposes) infinitely respawning ghost role as opposed to ones actual character, and as such is a very good solution to cut down on the bulk of self antagging drones. That is why I support OP's idea.