...because there's just such a confluence of MR-related ideas: robots, gibbons (don't care what you say - that's a gibbon "driving"), death rays, iPods, claws, citywide destruction, the artist is an Aussie...
By the way. Here's the artist's website:
http://www.stevescott.com.au/SteveScott_Illo01.htm
Funky, no?
Cheers,
Marc