Le Petit Prince roving greenhouse robot is overwhelmingly cute, useful
By Laura June 
posted August 29th 2009 4:17AM
posted August 29th 2009 4:17AM
posted August 29th 2009 4:17AM
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MR. T SAYS STAY IN SCHOOL KIDS
Doesn't this thing look like something out of Portal?! But I suppose if I have to have a robotic overlord mercilessly beat me to death, it would be comforting to have that one adorable eye looking down on me.
It looks kind of like the B'omarr Monks from Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi.
Well... Not really.
2 Konstantin:
It reminded me of Portal as well. Lol.
Portal rocks! Waiting for second part.
Oh great, a robotic Triffid.
the human eye freaks me out
Yeah, I would've gone with "diabolical" or "raw, unblinking evil" before "cute."
On second look, it reminds me of that huge one-eyed robot from "Monsters vs. Aliens." Maybe that's why I can't see it as "adorable." The legs also remind me of something from "Mars Attacks!"
Agreed. It's "one massive eye" is NOT adorable.
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What freaks me out is it looks like a kinder gentler spiderdemon.
reminds me of WALL-E
E.V.E.
It's all fun and games...
pretty soon it will be fashionable for all the young robots to have flowers on top, then they'll need "fertilizer" for those plants....
so wtf. what eye color do you want? "oh i want brown to match my eyes."
idk when robots start using human features one peace at a time. it only looks like a fucked up monster or a incomplete cyborg.
...
or some fucked up cyborg monster that has a plant on his head. >_>
first thing I thought of was the gun turrets from Portal
haha awesome
Mars is no place to raise your kids.
In fact it's cold as hell.
In Doom, it WAS Hell, right? Well, Deimos was suspended over Hell, anyway.
(And I mean the 1993 game, not the lame @$$ movie)
And there's no one to raise them if you did.
Doom the movie sucked because they tried to make it "real" in so to speak it should be explainable where the evilness comes from. What happened to the pure evil hell that was originally? "No, noone would believe there is a hell".. Tell that to the catholics!
at the end of the video it says "for more home appliances...." this isn't a home appliance!
Unless you call the planet Mars your home.
Hey, Mars is homey. Don't hate. Don't hate.
that would be chill in the home.
A great way to get the last beer out!
http://s3.garrysmod.org/img/dl/50823_1.jpg
hmm.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/2/21/CrazyCakeyCuriousandMean.jpg
Ah... just to think of it as an "evolutionary concept."
Friendly, tree-hugging robot today...
Annoying, trigger-happy gun-toting robot tomorrow.
Hmmm... http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/matrix02.jpg
http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/397/208111397.jpg
hmmmm
The plant is a lie!!!
lol one more part of the robots plans to take over the world
did you see those articles about the man eating robots???
I thought that looked familiar. It's one of GLaDOS's modules.
"overwhelmingly cute, useful..." and slightly creepy.
Venus Flytraps absolutely need to be watered with distilled water, and NOT kept under glass or in a terrarium.
I think that something in your avatar should NOT be kept "under glass".
give it a gun and i buy one
its EVA from wall-e!!!
my thoughts exactly.
such a blatant ripoff, and nigh a typical engadget reference to be found.
At least EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) was cute. This thing is creepy. Sure EVE would probably blast every moving creature off the face of whatever planet she was evaluating, but at least she didn't have a human eye (singular at that!) peering into my soul.
Eva (probably due to being a "female" robot and all) takes care of the plant in her heart. As usual, she allows her emotions to interfere with the prime objective.
But The Little Prince uses his head, fools.
@wrs589
I hear you man. I can make anything into a bong. You should try to make one with a lawn gnome its good times.
ll it need's is a floating brain in that jar and you have something awesomely creepy. Until then it' just creepy to have that eye.
Great! That's exactly what the world was missing. A transparent dildo with one freakish eyeball to see its target and go in there making the innards visible. People, now we have everything (sigh).
...wow. Really?
I bet I could make that into a robot-bong
I hear you man. I can make anything into a bong. You should try to make one with a lawn gnome its good times.
Just don't put any cats into it...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,503645,00.html