Wall-E also shows remarkable backwards compatibility being able to play old movies and music. Not to mention his recovery functions after a full wipe at the end.
Despite Wall-E’s and Eve’s differences, they still showed love for each other, and when Wall-E was broken, Eve came to the rescue, because Wall-E cared so much for Eve.
I could probably repair a robot as simple as Wall-E in my garage with an SAE toolset, some WD-40 and some floor space. EVE, however, not a fucking chance. Her joints are far more complex, looking like some sort of electromagnet. Wall-E is built to last and has mechanical parts. He's even somewhat capable of self-repair, his treads fall apart at the beginning of the movie and he pulls a good set from a broken down Wall-E unit and puts them on. His sensor mechanism looks like a basic pair of binoculars retrofit to contain cameras, allowing him to zoom in on a subject.
My guess is that Wall-E was built like this because parts are cheap. Also, his body is simple, being a stamped metal cube. Rigid, was even crushed and the damage to Wall-E wasn't too terrible beyond motherboard damage.
He has a backup drive that he boots from at the end, after being crushed and having the replacement motherboard installed. He is also solar powered, which in a post-apocalyptic setting, makes for decent long-term reliability.
Wall-E has a trash compactor, basically being a tiny pseudo-sapient garbage truck, for garbage cleanup. About said pseudo-sapience, Wall-E doesn't seem to be exactly human-level like EVE, but he can form basic speech ("WA.. WUH-ALL-E?") through unknown methods, perhaps the speaker built into his cassette player, and is capable of the most basic human emotions and rationalizations, such as love, fear, curiosity and dedication.
Wall-E and EVE are both very interesting robots from both a mechanical and technological perspective, but WALL-E is more useful to the average person, is probably cheaper to produce, and would outlast a robot like EVE probably by millennia considering the situation on Earth in the movie. EVE is more useful for the spacefaring society we see onboard the Axiom, however as we can see, over-reliance on robots has lead to some severe medical issues (morbid obesity) among the entirety of the human crew. Also, the human-level intelligence robots attempt a mutiny by command of Auto, the cold, calculating (not necessarily evil, just operating to his protocol) autopilot system onboard the Axiom. WALL-Es are smart enough to interact with humans in a constructive way, but are too simple-minded to plan an all-out mutiny.
tl;dr in the end, I guess Wall-E isn't just a movie about the dangers of mistreating the environment and haphazard garbage disposal methods, it's also about the dangers of AI and the situational superiority of simple, utilitarian engineering. Pretty in-depth for a kid's movie, huh?
Sttommyboy on March 10th, 2020 at 04:38 UTC »
Wall-E also shows remarkable backwards compatibility being able to play old movies and music. Not to mention his recovery functions after a full wipe at the end.
Sonicgott on March 10th, 2020 at 04:54 UTC »
Despite Wall-E’s and Eve’s differences, they still showed love for each other, and when Wall-E was broken, Eve came to the rescue, because Wall-E cared so much for Eve.
We all can be good at something.
ytphantom on March 10th, 2020 at 06:20 UTC »
I could probably repair a robot as simple as Wall-E in my garage with an SAE toolset, some WD-40 and some floor space. EVE, however, not a fucking chance. Her joints are far more complex, looking like some sort of electromagnet. Wall-E is built to last and has mechanical parts. He's even somewhat capable of self-repair, his treads fall apart at the beginning of the movie and he pulls a good set from a broken down Wall-E unit and puts them on. His sensor mechanism looks like a basic pair of binoculars retrofit to contain cameras, allowing him to zoom in on a subject.
My guess is that Wall-E was built like this because parts are cheap. Also, his body is simple, being a stamped metal cube. Rigid, was even crushed and the damage to Wall-E wasn't too terrible beyond motherboard damage.
He has a backup drive that he boots from at the end, after being crushed and having the replacement motherboard installed. He is also solar powered, which in a post-apocalyptic setting, makes for decent long-term reliability.
Wall-E has a trash compactor, basically being a tiny pseudo-sapient garbage truck, for garbage cleanup. About said pseudo-sapience, Wall-E doesn't seem to be exactly human-level like EVE, but he can form basic speech ("WA.. WUH-ALL-E?") through unknown methods, perhaps the speaker built into his cassette player, and is capable of the most basic human emotions and rationalizations, such as love, fear, curiosity and dedication.
Wall-E and EVE are both very interesting robots from both a mechanical and technological perspective, but WALL-E is more useful to the average person, is probably cheaper to produce, and would outlast a robot like EVE probably by millennia considering the situation on Earth in the movie. EVE is more useful for the spacefaring society we see onboard the Axiom, however as we can see, over-reliance on robots has lead to some severe medical issues (morbid obesity) among the entirety of the human crew. Also, the human-level intelligence robots attempt a mutiny by command of Auto, the cold, calculating (not necessarily evil, just operating to his protocol) autopilot system onboard the Axiom. WALL-Es are smart enough to interact with humans in a constructive way, but are too simple-minded to plan an all-out mutiny.
tl;dr in the end, I guess Wall-E isn't just a movie about the dangers of mistreating the environment and haphazard garbage disposal methods, it's also about the dangers of AI and the situational superiority of simple, utilitarian engineering. Pretty in-depth for a kid's movie, huh?