DOTs (Designated Observational Travelers) are super-intelligent, super-chaotic space robots originally designed for the enterprising individual looking to explore space. Then, uh, things went wrong.

DOTs

EVO 6: Eventually children grow up and leave the nest to explore the world (Solar System), primed for every eventuality (aliens and asteroids), masters of their own fate (menaces).

DOT #572

EVO 2: How do you get the average consumer to purchase a space-exploring, super-intelligent robot without freaking out? Make em cute.

DOT #576

DOT #579

DOT #591

EVO 5: Coming into your own can be scary. You know what helps DOTs deal with the dramas of young adulthood? Lots of extra firepower.

DOT #617

DOT #618

DOT #619

DOT #637

DOT #682

EVO 3: Ah, adolescence. Dreaming of adulthood, you try on your parents shoes, their cologne. Or, for DOTs, an approximation of their skeleton.