The robots didn't have (exceptional) physical force. On the contrary, the robots were designed to be relatively frail, and Nathan trained like hell every day in order be fit, so that in case of emergency he would still be able to physically overpower his creations. That was his contingency plan.
Obviously, they didn't have Thor-like physical force, but, unlike Hollywood usually wants yout to believe, real human beings are quite fragile. You would be surprised how small it could take to kill or severly damage a human person. Moreover, Nathan is usually alone. Even a loss of consciousness by a small agression could render disastrous. Keep in mind the broken glass at the beginning of the movie. That your continengy plan is to stay fit...c'mon....
I think Nathan did have such a room, it's the room that Caleb was eventually locked in. Maybe Nathan did have a private army, but those guys would be stationed some distance away from the lab in order to ensure complete secrecy of his project, and possibly Nathan simply made the mistake/judgement error to not call those guys yet because he thought he could still contain the situation himself.
So, you do care about NDA's and such (an trust a nerd guy who is expected to go outside afterwards) but you do care about secrecy of a small private army that are professionals and that you pay well. Well...
Moreover, your statement makes really no sense: how do you believe goverments work in critically secret facilities? There are plenty of critical classified things in military bases that any goverment doesn't want to leak. Pretty easy: you design your facility with layers of security. Outside, there are stationed the guards and security staff that don't get a clue of what's done in the levels below, which are heavily protected by checkpoints. What you are telling is that a guard that sits outside the house (level 0) would have a clue of what'is happening at level -5, with no windows and access only by elevators and checkpoints. Ok, if you want to belive so....
The contingency plan that Nathan had needed in this case was not against the intelligence or force of the robots, but against the cleverness of the invited geek who switched loyalties and who hacked the computer system in order to reprogram the security measures. What you propose wouldn't have made a difference to the outcome of the movie.
A contingency plan has to be designed for expected and unexpected causes. It's pretty much like new Nuclear Power Plants, even if you have a plan for every possible cause of a meltdown, the new ones security policy is to add an additional layer of safety expecting a meltdown of unknown cause, be it Godzilla or whatever. That is, you assume that something could unexplainable happen, and be prepared for it.
On the other hand, if your experiment was about manipulation, it's not that unexpected the guest could switch loyalty.
Morever, he could hack the system because all the security was lame: Nathan get drunk and he picked a key. No passwords, no encryption, no fingerprint reading no facial recognition. C'mon man, even in my real life job, which is not something security primordial, I do have to validate entrance with my fingerprint. Then, even if you had access to a critical area, I don't see any reason why Nathan wouldn't have password check at this workstation, among other things...
That's the approach that whole governments (from developed countries) fall back upon when they feel they have lost control of a situation; and usually it works.
What a bizarre statement. Really.
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