Looks like a robot, but it ain’t a robot t’all!

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The Looks Like A Robot Flickr pool doesn’t require more description than its title: it’s a wonderful showcase of metal man pareidolia. Pictured: Hobart from Planet Tobor.

Image: wryondedwards

Looks Like A Robot [Flickr via BotJunkie via Robot Dreams]

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6 Responses to Looks like a robot, but it ain’t a robot t’all!

  1. chrisabraham says:

    John, thanks for teaching me a new word — I learn something new every day! Definitions of pareidolia on the Web:

    * Pareidolia is the perception of seeing a distinct image in a collection of formless matter. An example would be seeing faces or shapes in a cloud.

    * The term pareidolia , referenced in 1994 by Steven Goldstein, describes a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an …

    * The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the viewer; such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals or seeing shapes in clouds

  2. Freddie Freelance says:

    I for one welcome our new Hobart Masters!

  3. misterhankscorpio says:

    That robot is a beautiful, old welding machine (SMAW or “stick-welder”). You’d best not to cross it least it weld your car doors shut…

  4. devophill says:

    ROBAHT!

  5. Piers W says:

    It sounds like a word, it looks like a word, it’s in Wikipedia. It’s not actually a word though.

  6. cartufer says:

    that is obviously a welding machine

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