Robots

Robots is a 2005 American animated science fiction comedy film directed by Chris Wedge and written by David Lindsay-Abaire, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The story follows ambitious robot inventor Rodney Copperbottom, who seeks employment at the company of his idol Bigweld in Robot City, but discovers a plot by its new CEO Phineas T. Ratchet and his mother to forcibly upgrade the city's populace and eradicate struggling robots, known as "outmodes".