“There was that time that a robot failed, therefore robots cannot succeed” isn’t the slam dunk that you seem to think it is.

Wanna explain to me why a robot never took this photo? https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/

That exact photo is a beauty shot, for PR value rather than any scientific value.

Here's a long list of photos of Earth, a few were taken by humans, most were taken by robotic probes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_images_of_Ea...