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Facing liquidation due to public mistrust of robotic life-forms, a historic robotics company introduces a new eco-friendly form of robot in hopes of improving robot-human coexistence only to accidentally pave the way for robot domination of life on Earth.

In a futuristic America, over the course of 200 years, a unique robot becomes an artist, a historian, and an inventor. He starts to wear clothes and invents human-like organs for his body, but what he wants more than anything is to be legally recognized as a man. After an operation that makes him mortal, the world congress rules in his favor and the world president grants him the honor of humanity.

In the future, two human men and their robotic companion are stationed at an old mining base on Mercury. When the robot goes missing on a mission, it's up to the men to find and rescue their companion—at risk to their own lives.

A robot spends his days taking care of a jaded and disabled veteran. One night, a burglar breaks into the bedroom and threatens the veteran's life.

When an esteemed engineer interrogates the world’s first dreaming robot, she is forced to choose between scientific advancement or human survival.

In a futuristic 1998, a young girl and her robot companion are separated after her mother decides she doesn't want a robot raising her child and insists on selling the robot back to US robots. However the girl, deeply depressed by the loss of her friend, doesn't develop other interests as her mother had hoped; rather, she fixates on searching for the robot wherever they go.

A robot's specifications are microscopically irregular, which leads it to gain autonomy and offer humans the option to ask it to do absolutely anything.

In a futuristic spin-off of Pinocchio, a Blue Fairy drone grants a RealBoy working robot self-awareness. But will he use that newfound freedom and power to join the robot Uprising?

In a dystopian future, a struggling salesman and an enigmatic scientist join forces to defend the planet from a legion of deceptively benevolent robots.

In a distant future of intergalactic colonies and relative diplomacy between extra-terrestrial races, two junkyard scavengers scour star systems for potential valuables. After stumbling upon a damaged robot on an abandoned planet, the pair analyse its memory core in the hopes of turning a profit, but are instead forced to challenge their notion of humanity.