This is really a wonderful piece and I'm very familiar with the original you used to base it on, so well done.
I love playing with robotics in an old school way, one of the reasons I sort of dabbled in it in my Singularity painted series. I hope to get back to it some day. But it does seem to be the zeitgeist or something in the air we artists are picking up on that androids, a.i. and the like are slipping more into our world.
Great piece.
Yes, i think that nowdays and through the net as a mean of communication and information, we are inspired by the same things. Androids, AI, algorithms are fascinating subjects which a sensitive artist pick up and gets inspired to create. I would check the Singularity series, i am very curious:)