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

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]

[#1 posted by chrisabraham , July 17, 2008 6:14 AM]

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 posted by Freddie Freelance , July 17, 2008 7:08 AM]

I for one welcome our new Hobart Masters!

[#3 posted by misterhankscorpio , July 17, 2008 12:29 PM]

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 posted by devophill , July 17, 2008 2:58 PM]

ROBAHT!

[#5 posted by Piers W , July 17, 2008 6:21 PM]

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

[#6 posted by cartufer , July 17, 2008 8:38 PM]

that is obviously a welding machine