Since I’ve been posting about reindeer, let’s see Santa’s flesh and blood creatures changed into sleek, tireless robot servants. It makes sense that Santa would eventually move in this direction. Such a compassionate soul as he would want to avoid stress and strain on the mortal creatures. They would be semi-retired and serve only as an honor guard for special occasions. The majority of the Christmas Eve work would be done by the robots.
A convoy of tiny autonomous vehicles delivery food and gifts during Christmas.
Artwork by The Dodomiter
A lone reindeer treads a boreal landscape.
Artwork by CynicalTopHat
Another reindeer strikes a pose.
3D model by Lixinjing
Here’s an interesting one. I assume the artist is Chinese, which makes sense as the animal resembles a chunky mythical Quilin rather than a reindeer.
Boston Dynamics, the manufacturer of the robot dog Spot, decked out their creations in reindeer garb one Christmas and had them pull a sleigh.
AI image generators offer lots of robot reindeer, and if I may gripe I like crediting actual artists rather than simply “AI.” I’m not sure if this is AI though. But it’s cool. (When I was growing up such images were tediously generated by airbrush by a human hand.)
A reindeer as a military drone, by artist Daniel Beaulieu.
