I saw this picture today, of the real life Wall-E out on Mars. Curiosity, has been busy doing his thing, in a surprisingly similar way to his fictitious counterpart, made famous by Disney Pixar. If a robot could look happy, I would say Curiosity was looking pretty damn happy right now. There is also a little bit of pride—look at me—the picture seems to say.
It struck me as a lonely life, if a robot could have such a feeling, but an industrious life all the same. Curiosity isn’t completely alone though, he has a few redundant friends such as Opportunity and Spirit, who also reside on Martian land, but there are no people, making Mars, as far as we know, the only planet to be inhabited solely by robots.
Below, Opportunity takes a shadow selfie. Those rovers know how to mix-it-up!
There is something quintessentially human, about these robot selfies taken on Mars, and it is the nature of humans that we place our emotional nuances on unemotional objects, such as cute robot rovers.
Picture Source: Mars Exploration Rovers
Source Article: Curiosity takes a ‘belly selfie’ on Mars
Interesting fact about the picture: The Curiosity selfie is actually 92 pictures stitched together to remove the tell-tale, outstretched, selfie arm. Clever robot! aka NASA engineers 😉
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They are not just any robots, they are solar powered robots!
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Nice point Gary 🙂
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Thanks for reblog 🙂
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Great post- brings us to think about when civilization will get to the point where our robots are actually so human, we can’t distinguish. I see a story there…
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
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Yes, it’s definitely an exciting prospect!
And welcome, you have a great blog 🙂
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Since is re-blogged, isn’t one of the rovers still running well beyond it’s time or did it finally shut down?
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