Synopsis

In a world inhabited entirely by sentient robots, young inventor Rodney Copperbottom leaves his small hometown for Robot City, hoping to meet his hero, Bigweld. Instead, he discovers that Bigweld Industries has been taken over by a profit-driven new management that plans to replace older robots. With help from a group of outcasts, Rodney fights to preserve the idea that every robot has value.

Factoids & Trivia

• Robots was Blue Sky Studios' second feature film, following Ice Age (2002).

• The project grew out of an unsuccessful attempt to adapt William Joyce's children's book Santa Calls. Chris Wedge and Joyce subsequently developed an original story centered on a world of robots.

• The film was released in a digitally remastered IMAX version at the same time as its conventional theatrical release. It was also promoted as an early example of a computer-animated feature designed to showcase large-format presentation.

• The visual design combines polished chrome, exposed gears, rivets, pipes, and other mechanical details with a colorful retro-futurist style. Robot City was built as a complete industrial metropolis rather than as a simple backdrop.

• The September 2005 DVD and VHS releases included the original animated short Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty, expanding the film's world through one of its supporting characters.

• The end credits include 2-D robot drawings, while the closing credits also contain the joke phrase "Blue Sky Babies Assembled During Production" among the production acknowledgments.

• Robots earned more than $260 million worldwide and became one of Blue Sky's notable non-Ice Age animated features.