Aw c'mon, look at poor Morpheus wimpering there on the ground. Can't you give it a break and try to be conforting? Now go up and give it a hug before the fire trucks arrive and humiliate it even more.
Or aliens will visit us only to rescue their machine brothers. They'll arrive in huge ships, and we'll panic, they'll collect all the really important space machines which they will give sentience, and then leave us alone with all our problems, scratching our monkey heads.
Seems to have been carrying a lot of fuel for a test flight. Maybe it had secretly planned an escape, but didn't account for the extra secret fuel weight.