What we think about it:
tsonfeir - "If I was a Martian, those would scare the heck out of me."
Earthpig_Johnson - "These things will evolve into a new race of Martians and finally invade Earth."
Its_Pelican_Time - "Send them with a mining robot and a 3d printer so they can fix themselves. Definitely no chance that they start building more robots and eventually come take over the earth."
garry4321 - "Imagine they sent them with a stationary probe, and then the robots go rogue. Scientists can only watch in horror/curiosity from their stationary camera as these robots build a manufacturing plant that starts spitting out terminators and then a rocket ship starts going up in the distance."
Heliolord - "I feel as though it wouldn't be too hard to stop them with a few nukes. Sure, it'll take a few months to repurpose a satellite rocket to carry an icbm and then some more travel time, but I doubt even robots could manage to go from a couple robots on a barren planet to unstoppable industrial war machines in a year or so."
garry4321 - "perhaps not, but an ever improving AI would make for a great movie. Also, who knows how many years go by before people take it serious enough to NUKE MARS?"
asyouuuuuuwishhhhh - "There’s actually a book something like this. One of the plot lines is a bunch of mining robots get sent to Jupiter’s moons and then humanity falls apart and forgets about them. They eventually attain sentience and form their own society"
Ruadhan2300 - "Have you seen the War of the Worlds series? It features machines a hell of a lot like these.."
SAdelaidian - "The researchers want to continue giving these bots upgrades, such as complete autonomy, so they can operate and reallocate tasks on their own."
LeftOnQuietRoad - "Jettisoned robot: “granddad was right, in order go somewhere, you gotta leave something behind. I just didn’t think it would be me.”"
pcprof0 - "As a reminder: Cylons were created by man."
zoot_boy - ""Explore planets""
drarch - "And yet somehow, they will be sent to rescue Matt Damon."
RaskoHokulic - "I did a short film on a ride-able version of these you can watch here."
Competitive-Trip-946 - "Is this what it would look like if and when AI gets passed us(eradication of humanity) and starts exploring? The empty seats implies that."
Constant-Elevator-85 - "I’d love for us to meet E.T and it turn out to be left behind AI. On a mission long forgotten, from a civilization we couldn’t possibly ever find or know anything about. And then never meet any other life. I hope whatever aliens finds our stuff use it for porn."
Mmortt - "Fren."
papapay90 - "Thats just Vasco, u can leave him near the ship if u want"
CRD907 - "One step closer to the EMMI from Metroid dread"
