Ehm, this was a reference to the movie Alien. In it, the android Ash followed secret orders of the evil corporation at the expensive of the ship's crew. The crew were referred to as space truckers, because the director (Ridley Scott) wanted to portray future space travelers as truckers. Not quiet sure how your reference to Pokemon fit the article about a "dexterous autonomous robots that can help [...] humans "extreme space" missions."

Am I the only one, who wonders if we just decided to send Ash along with our space truckers?