Small Robots

@smolrobots.bsky.social

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here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16161865 Some writing and illustration for @thedailytism.com Nonbinary. Pronoun agnostic. 🏳️‍⚧️

A dome-shaped robot with four wheels on its base and six long, jointed arms, three to a side. All of its fingers are wiggling in anticipation and it is smiling. Text in the bottom right reads, "suggested by @aguitarpenter.bsky.social".

A spherical robot held aloft by a propeller on its top, with jointed arms and a shirt collar around its 'neck' from which a striped tie is suspended. It has a file tucked under one arm while its free hand rifles through an open file cabinet drawer. Despite its boring task, it looks quietly happy.

A spherical robot with jointed arms and legs and a zigzag antenna. The robot is carrying am unwieldy, cartoon-style nuclear bomb in both arms, looking rather unsure of itself.

A round robot with banded arms and legs, looking alarmed and waving frantically as it stands on a tiled floor. An open door with significant clearance from the floor is visible just in front of the robot, and it's pointing upwards.

A spotify episode description reading: "Episode Description
They're soft, they're white, they're somewhere between cute and creepy — it's Eleanor and Alasdair. And for this episode, we read Tove Jansson's 1946 adventure Comet In Moominland (Kometjakten) translated by Elizabeth Portch."

A spherical robot with banded arms and legs and a sympathetic smile. It is gently holding onto the finger of a person's hand, while standing on some sort of raised surface like a table or sideboard. Text in the bottom right reads, "suggested by Faith Caton".

A robot shaped like a space hopper (or hippity hop, hoppity hop, etc. for US audiences), with a big, spheroid body and two little, banded arms sticking out of the top where its handles should be. It's in mid-bounce and looks extremely happy.

A robot in the form of a plate with a silver cloche on top of it. It has four banded legs on the bottom and two banded arms on the cloche section. One arm has a serving towel draped across the wrist while the other is reaching to the cloche section's handle as if about to lift it off. The robot is wearing a black bow-tie and its face, which is on the front of the cloche, is composed in a dignified pout with eyes closed.

Nonbinarybot, an ovoid robot with banded arms and legs and a coiled antenna, holding up a card with the number 2 on it, waggling the fingers on its other hand spookily and making an 'ooo' face. It's shaded in soft colours, with metallic black legs, and the background is striped in the colours of the Non-Binary flag (horizontal yellow, white, purple, black). White text at the bottom reads, "nonbinarybot @smolrobots".

A robot in the form of a viking longship. Its head is on the curled-over figurehead, it has a large striped sail billowing outwards, shields hung along its gunwales and in place of long oars it has banded arms, paddling it through the sea. It looks furious as it kicks up ocean spray in its wake.

A robot in the form of a figure-8-shaped sponge, with banded arms and legs. Its feet have little studs (cleats) on the soles and its lower half is stained darker with absorbed water. The robot is sprinting forward with a panicked expression on its face, drops of water flying out of it.

A spherical robot held aloft by a propeller on its top, with a single banded limb on its bottom that ends in a large, grabbing claw. It's hovering over a halved avocado, its claw just about to close on the protruding stone, with an expression of intense concentration, complete with sticking out tongue.

A large, ovoid robot with two sturdy, banded legs standing by a doorstep and glaring down at a shocked man opening the door as musical notes drift out from behind him. The scene is dark, suggesting it's night, with the open door as the only light source. The man has a goatee, slightly receding hair styled into a quiff, and is wearing slippers. There is a doormat just inside the doorway, and a path leading from the step. Text in the bottom right reads, "suggested by @chaletschoolfan".

A kidney-shaped robot with two banded arms and a seat-like hollow on its innder side. A smiling baby in a onesie nestled to it, held in place with its arms as it rocks back and forth on its rounded base. The robots eyes are closed and it smiles beatifically beneath long eyelashes.

A post reading, "nobody i follow had a single positive word for it

i think the brits can't tell our politics apart the same way they can't tell feta and cotija apart"

A flat, rectangular robot standing with its back to a violent gust of wind, with leaves billowing around. It has short, banded, sturdy legs, little outstretched banded arms and a face with eyes screwed up with the effort of staying upright. Its body is being slightly bent by the force of the wind.

A reconstructed mounting of the fossilised skeleton of a young adult Patagotitan, currently on display in Peterborough Cathedral. It is a large sauropod with a fairly standard anatomy (not visible from this angle are the highly derived toeless columnar manus characteristic of titanosaurs) and is pictured from the rear with the tail in the air, disappearing out of the left side if the frame. Its surroundings are the gothic grandeur of a medieval Anglican cathedral, with a black grand piano in the foreground. The skeleton is on a white plinth, cordoned off with black ropes. At a rough estimate, the pelvis is some 4 metres in the air. It's a big lad.

Two ovoid robots with banded arms and legs. The one on the left takes the form of a devil with little horns, a pitchfork, a banded, barbed tail, cloven hooves and bat-like wings, and is lit from below to appear sinister. It holds out a grasping or beckoning hand and grins evilly, its eyes with little pinpricks of light in the centre. The robot on the right is instead in the form of an angel, with feathered wings, a halo attached to its top by a banded antenna, and a lyre held loosely in one hand. Its other hand is extended as if in warning, and it has a worried look on its face, mouth open. Both robots are identically proportioned and posed, as mirror images of one another.

An ovoid robot in the vague form of a beaver. It's sitting up on its hind legs, with a flat, cross-hatched tail lying behind it, has little round hands and feet that resemble paws and round ears. It has whiskers, a heart-shaped nose, and two large incisors protruding from its mouth. It grasps a stick in its hands, from which has been taken a large bite, leaving crumbs around its mouth and a little, conical pile of sawdust at its feet. It looks rather pleased with itself.

$A smiling, cuboid robot with nine little drawers built into its front. It has banded arms and sturdy banded legs and is waving with one hand while the other holds out some pills. Its upper right drawer is fractionally pulled out.$

A robot in the form of a small, ovoid car. Its smiling face is on the front below the windshield (the wipers look a little bit like eyebrows) and instead of an aerial it has a banded antenna with a bobble on the end. Visible through its semi-transparent windows and sunroof are two separate seats in the front and a long, couch seat behind them. A speech bubble is coming out of its face saying, "BEEP BEEP!"

Two posts appearing sequentially on my timeline. The first is by @mooseallain.bsky.social and features a line drawing of a wren wearing Kylo Ren's helmet with "Kylo Wren" underneath. The second is by @wangleberry.bsky.social and features a drawing in a remarkably similar style to Moose's, of a hot-dog T. rex. Both artists claim a similar motivation for posting: the need to get the idea out of their heads.

A smiling, spherical robot walking forward and waving. It is wearing a mask - which necessarily covers its entire body - in the style of a luchador (Mexican professional wrestler), with framed gaps for the eyes, mouth and nose (even though it hasn't got a nose), lightning bolts on the cheeks and a star on the forehead.

The wrestler Mercedes Moné posing with her partner "The Best Mortos" who wears a gown, mortarboard etc. His face is obscured by a smile emoji because he normally wears a mask (visible as a thumbnail in the top left of the image - it's an elaborate latex, horned bull-monster of some kind). The visible part of his face - just his mouth and chin - shows him to be a bearded, Hispanic man with a very handsome smile and a strong jawline. Basically, if anything he looks like he's out of Moné's league, and she is a famously beautiful wrestler and actor.

A robot in the form of a waffle ice-cream cone clutched in a child's hand. It has a full serving on its top, but the ice-cream is starting to melt, dripping down its side. Its face is panic-stricken as it uses its two small, banded arms to hold its ice-cream in place.

A smiling, rounded, roughly pyramidal robot with banded arms and legs and an array of six controls on its front. From L-R the top row is a rectangular switch like on an electrical socket that the robot is pressing or just pointing to, then a little vertical slider, then a slightly ridged cylindrical dial. L-R the bottom row is a big round button, a joystick, and a vertical, grooved wheel. Text in the bottom left reads, "suggested by @gosuperdonnie".

An ovoid robot with banded arms and legs and wearing oven mitts frowns down at a tray of gingerbread folk, all with grumpy faces and standing with their legs spread.

A joyous, disc-shaped robot flying through the air. Its face is on its leading edge and it has two little banded arms hanging down near the front.

A robot in the form of a prize cup, with the bowl forming its head and its banded arms balled on its 'hips' forming the handles. It has a rounded base with a nameplate reading 'CHAMPION'.

A rounded trapezoid robot on tracks with banded arms, holding a manuscript in one hand and rubbing its chin thoughtfully with the other. A dial on its front has five settings: FLATTER, GENTLE, FAIR, TOUGH and BRUTAL. The manuscript is labelled "Legacy" and "Thomas Heasman-Hunt" in a kind of futuristic font: a novel I had published about a decade ago which did not sell very well.

A happy, ovoid robot with banded arms and legs, sitting on one end of a seesaw, gripping the handle with both hands. A hatch on its back is open and three small, trapezoid weights are on the ground next to it, marked with recessed numbers reading "10", "8", and "5", though there are no units given.

A robot in the form of a four-sided, collapsible gazebo with open sides, with its struts replaced by jointed robot legs. Its smiling face is on one side of its peaked canvas roof, with also has a little antenna on the top.

A spherical robot with banded arms, held aloft by a propeller on its top. It's holding up a small sign with an exclamation mark on it and has a slightly concerned expression on its face with an open mouth as if speaking. Text in the bottom left reads, "suggested by @thebeardlessone".

A dome-shaped robot banded arms and with four wheels on its base, beckoning a badly-sunburned person towards it with a concerned expression on its face. One of its hands is a large paint roller that is slathered in aftersun cream. Only the person's back is visible and it is darkly coloured but with a pale strip just below the arm, indicating the area that was covered by a bikini top. Wavy lines of heat radiate from the darker surface. Text in the bottom left reads, "suggested by @katie_riddoch".

An ovoid robot with banded arms and legs sitting down next to a sheaf of papers that show the Notokaybot crochet pattern, frowning and counting on its fingers as it sticks its tongue out in concentration. Text in the bottom left reads, "suggested by @joitheartist.bsky.social".

An angry ovoid robot with banded arms (and probably legs, but they aren't visible) bursting from a cake that says "Boy or Girl?" in icing on the side, with piped icing along the top. The robot holds up a sign on which is written in fairly crude lettering, "it doesn't matter!!!".

An ovoid robot with long, jointed limbs and a little antenna, stepping out and waving cheerily, with its other hand making a thumbs-up gesture. Text in the bottom left reads, "suggested by @kai_wanders".

Four fuzzy, dome-shaped robots in varying sizes. Each has two little eyes near its base. They have different patterns in their fur. Text in the bottom left reads, "suggested by @agirlcalledTom".

A view from a kitchen window across a patio and back garden containing some patio furniture, a bike, and child's toys including a paddling pool. But in the centre, pride of place, is an orange, inflatable octopus wearing a sailor costume, including a jaunty little hat.

A round robot with banded arms and legs, wearing a bow tie. It's giving a rose to a female panda who already has a heart-shaped box of chocolates in her paws. It's pointing backwards with its free hand at a male panda sitting in a bamboo thicket, obliviously munching a stalk.

An ovoid robot with long, jointed limbs angrily wielding a clipboard and pencil and wearing a headset with attached microphone. It's gesturing furiously with its pencil towards a rather sparse floral display in a tall, slender metallic vase, and is also surrounded by a tiered wedding cake (topped with tiny Small Robot bride and groom figures) and a large, sweating ice sculpture of Bigbot.

A round-topped robot with short, banded arms and legs and a little zigzag antenna. It's holding out one hand and pointing with the other, mouth wide open, its face contorted into an expression of belligerent fury.

A robot in the form of a yo-yo with a face and two little banded arms on one half. It's throwing its hands up and making a delighted face as it drops downwards on its string.

A mock-up of a Doctor Who episode title screen (specifically from the 14th/15th Doctor eras, with a big, purple and yellow vortex or explosion in the background) which reads, "An interesting premise ruined by budget or the writer being too clever by half".

An ovoid robot with banded arms and legs jumping into the air with its hand raised and a big smile on its face. And: A happy, spherical robot with short, banded arms and legs, jumping up into the air with one hand held aloft. Their hands are meeting in the middle in a high five.

A smiling robot shaped like a squat, rounded pyramid with four wheels on its base and two banded arms, one of which is holding a dust cloth while the other has an enormous feather duster in place of a hand. Text in the bottom left reads, "suggested by @HedonisticWell".

An image that pastiches the opening titles of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Enterprise is flying next to a comet that trails dust behind it, with a yellow star in the distance. Text in the TNG font above it reads, "The One Where the Robot Shags that Blonde Sort".

A mock up of a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode title. The titular space station takes up most of the frame, and floating text above it reads, "Yes! It's a fucking Weyoun episode!"

A spherical robot with banded arms and legs, wearing a little spotty bowtie, in the act of spinning a set of four plates on tall sticks. It's tongue is sticking out in concentration and it looks faintly worried.

A robot in the form of a rectangular cushioned footrest with its legs replaced with banded robot legs and a little smiley face on one of the short ends.

A robot in the form of a classic round fishbowl. Inside are a number of fish, some plants and a little castle. The robot has two thick, banded arms attached to either side of the bowl, one of which is shaking out fish food from an open container into its top. Its cheerful face is on the outside of the bowl's transparent surface, just above the water line.

A round robot with banded arms and legs and a cape draped over its shoulders. It's swirling its cape around as it turns away, holding out its free hand and tilting its face up with its eyes closed. Text in the bottom left reads, "suggested by @emmahh.bsky.social".

A smiling, trapezoid robot with a rounded top, four banded legs and two banded arms, consulting a notebook page with a number of bulleted items on it while it holds a pencil in the other hand. In the foreground a person has rolled up their trouser leg to display a dark bruise on their shin, to which they are pointing.

A view of a swimming pool with the sea in the background. There are dried palm leaf parasols over tables and chairs at which several groups of people are sitting. The sky is blue with faint streaks of cloud.

Bigbot! A large - too large, really - ovoid robot with banded legs, no arms and a smiling, somewhat vacant face near the top of its towering body, emerging from the sea onto a beach, stomping one massive foot down onto the sand, throwing some up in the process. On the beach, people are fleeing in apparent terror: a mustachioed man in shorts runs away, as does a girl in a swimming costume, and a woman in a bikini wearing sunglasses. A boy holding an ice cream sprints beside a panicked dog, while a little girl tries to clamber out of a hole, spade in hand, a profoundly glum expression on her face. A towel and a bucket and spade are left abandoned, while a parasol with alternating light and dark sections has tipped over onto its side. Unperturbed, a sailboat floats in the distance behind Bigbot, two birds soar in the sky, and fluffy white clouds pile up on the horizon.

An ovoid robot with large, broad, pointed ears. It has banded arms and legs, little claws and cloven feet for some reason. On its top there are lots of little fuzzy hairs. It's holding up its hands, smiling as it levitates a shiny ball.

A spherical robot with banded arms and legs, holding a lightsaber and looking up at it in wonder. The robot is standing in darkness with the saber as the only source of illumination, and its glow is reflecting off its surface.