ROBOTS Is More Relevant Than Ever
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Whatever you think you remember about this movie... there's a lot more going on underneath its shiny metal surface. Join me and bestie @Mannof1000Thoughts as we dig in and break down this gorgeous underrated classic. And be sure to check out his channel after for more great essays!
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Hey, I hear you guys on the ideological bits of this video not being specific enough. I was speaking very casually on the topic and I think I will either try to go more in depth next time or just leave it as a joke here or there. That being said, I do think that corporatism, crony capitalism, the existence of abusive monopolies, and the argument for right to repair even having to exist in the first place, all come from the same source problem that I was focusing on here: valuing money over life, which is where we're at now in this real world dominated by capitalism. Which is why I spoke in more generic umbrella terms in this video. I wasn't planning on going super in depth here because I think it turns people off from even having the discussion in the first place. This video is about a kids' movie after all. It has goofy song and dance scenes.
My main intention was just to share my appreciation for this film's tackling of real world issues that we all can agree become progressively worse with every year that goes by. I hope y'all can at least see where I'm coming from and respect my intentions. To those arguing that the world in this movie resembles communism, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" doesn't have much in common with the society in this movie, where one of the central scare factors is a giant vacuum that eats up disabled/elderly robots and turns them into ingots for new shiny suits.
And lastly, if you're new here, I am nonbinary and there have been a significant amount of misogynistic comments on this video simply because the voice narrating it comes from a female body. That's not cool. I possess no hatred for men. I relate to men more than women most days. I think and feel just like you do. Please be respectful. We are all human beings and all deserving of respect and kindness toward each other.
"This video is about a kids' movie after all." and this is where you are wrong. Just because is animated does not mean is for children. I'd argue Robots is one of the most mature movies Blue Sky has ever produced
Really my favourite aspect of Robots is the seamless combination of the aesthetics of 1950s retro-futuristic, modern futuristic, and steampunk.
YES.
I LOVE IT.
Loved that about early 2000s animation! Lots of 1950s retro-future. Meet the Robinsons, Monsters Inc., Jimmy Neutron, the Incredibles…I wonder why that was?
@@pdpUU I suspect that was just due to the generation who was aged 30-60 at the time (there was a ton of 60s nostalgia as well). Just like a lot of stuff made for kids today evokes 80s and 90s nostalgia.
@@kaitlyn__L ahhhhh yes this makes sense
Fun fact, the music was made by blue man group
I still believe that Pixar essentially took the character motivation from the protagonists from Robots and gave it to the antagonists of Cars 2
Thank you for confirming I wasn't the only one who thought of Robots while watching Cars 2
Now that you mentioned it, yeah!
Oh yeah the outmodes and the lemons are quite similar
The fact that Robots had a more thought out world than the Pixar film is crazy
One of the movie's animators has currently worked for Pixar
When you said Rollie Pollie Ollie as a connection it's like my brain exploded, I can't believe I never noticed because both that show and this film always stuck out to me with how well they aged visually with their robot designs.
That show was AMAZING. I had my mind opened to such a greater world of imagination and wonder at the possible technologies of the future we will be able to make.
Ah.... The good old days....
But the character designs look somewhat like they're reminiscent to Tim Burton and Joe Murray's creations
This movie always sat tucked in a sweet spot of my brain. A few days ago I was cleaning metal and blurted out "You can shine no matter what you're made of!"
Ever since I was a kid, this film has been my most favourite of all time. It warms my heart so much to see it still being talked about, ESPECIALLY in regards to its deeper messages that one would most likely miss as a younger person.
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@@MasterAlpha1000 Uhuh
I thought this movie was a childhood fever dream
This was the most heartwarming essay on the Robots movie. Most reviews I watched of this film were overly critical, and take the fun out it's strongest quality the story. UA-cam critics prefer spectacle over the message, and that is sad. Movies like this are underrated gems nowadays. Criticism can be good, but if the negatives are dragged for so long without something nice to say makes me feel depressed. Good stories over animation quality will always be my go to thing when watching movies. I loved this review a lot because genuine videos without criticism are rare.
This is also why I quit watching most TV and movies, they focus more on action and the story is an afterthought. I know video games can do the same thing, but I'm an avid RPG player.
@@aiodensghost8645 late, but mood. Mainstream games can be cool but stuff like LISA & OFF are a tastier bread to my butter
@@caramel9154 I still need to buy LISA. I'll go for the Switch version... fuck Sony's censorship
This movie needs so much more recognition because it's definitely one of the animated goats of the 2000s.
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@@MasterAlpha1000you're cringe
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I genuinely live by several quotes from this movie.
"See a Need, Fill a Need."
"Why be YOU, When you can be NEW?"
"You can shine no matter what you're made of!"
This movie had a profound effect on me as person. I wanted to be an inventor beforehand. but this put it into context of how to do it. how to help people. "See a Need; Fill a Need." is still something that sticks with me today. though, the scope of what i do is a lot smaller than what i dreamed about. haha
easily one of the most important quotes in that movie.
yeah and its even based since its in favor of free market capitalism.
There's something really saddening about seeing just how much they advertise entirely on the fact that Robin Williams is in the movie. Especially after knowing how much he hated when studios did so. its seems like every ad for the movie shown in the video features only robin Williams, there is no hint of story or even the rest of the cast. R.I.P. Robin
This was definitely a film that I would always remember. Now I'll never forget it
This movie still hits me in the feels, and in a way also shows some of the stuff us with ASD go through (Rodney being reprimanded for helping others fix themselves instead of becoming a dishwasher... and lets not forget that Rodney was obsessed with the idea of invention and wanted to learn EVERYTHING about it).
Watched this last night bc of your video! It’s so good!
The stylized CGI animation looks great bc it’s not going for realism! The writing is really good, well paced story, great action sequences. So glad you did a video on it, I loved my rewatch.
I have held the same opinion since my first viewing at the theater in 2005 and stand by it today: Robots is one of the GREATEST works of animation in the modern era. I hold it at the same level of quality as older classics like The Secret of NIMH or current gems like Arcane. It's not flawless, but I absolutely consider it worthy in every aspect of the term "masterpiece".
Same with Hoodwinked
literally every kids movie is a good vs evil story.
it is matter of execution to be an engaging masterpiece nonetheless
Always thought this and Rollie Pollie Ollie were alike. Crazy they were the same people behind it!
I remember seeing this when I was like 7 years old and its definitely one of my favourites. The heartfelt relationship Rodney has with his dad and yeah, I think even as a kid you can see what the film is trying to say about the world we actually live in
FR though Piper was cooler than Cappy, I always wished Rodney got with her at the end instead 😂As much as I really adore this movie glad a sequel never took off, better left as it is imo :)
Honestly same, The movie is amazingly heartfelt and show just how much Rodney cares for his dad. Also I really wanted Rodney to get with Piper at the end, she has a lot more personality that the girl he ended up with
@@sprakledream827 Amen, my relationship with my dad was strained at best and a lot of the heart Stanley Tucci put into his performance as Herb really resonated and did a lot for me
Probably one of the key moments I started to see the ways in which my dad just wasn't there for me
Long time ago, I have dreamed about Rodney and Cappy getting married in a sequel that was supposed to happen like in 2018
They should've just gone to space to escape capitalism tbh
We all should have.
love a callback
Take us with you, Cherdenko!
Okay, Tim Curry
Only to end up replicating it in space?
This video made me realize some crazy shit about myself lmao, lemme explain.
When I was a kid, this was like THE movie. I watched this movie so many fucking times I can't even begin to estimate the amount, and wouldn't you know it, I also loved Rolie Polie Olie to death. I remember vividly having both on DVD and picking them out to watch with one of those DVD players with the built-in screen that you strap to the back of the front seats' head rests in a car on nearly every single road trip we ever went on. The only other thing I can remember watching on that thing is like, LazyTown.
I'm nearly 21 now, and I have a deep passion for Virtual Reality. So I'm in university right now working towards my degree in computer engineering with the specific purpose of getting into the VR gaming industry in hopes of being able to make getting to experience VR more accessible and affordable. And if you know anything about the VR industry, at least half of everything new nowadays is for prosumers or businesses and costs literally thousands of dollars. Even the company who made the first huge push for consumer-level VR, Oculus (now Meta), went from releasing headsets worth $300 to $1500.
Even more relevant to this though, I've spent the past year creating my own set of VR Full-Body Trackers based on an open source project called SlimeVR, with the specific intent of making this one of the most affordable options for quality FBT out there.
In other words, I'm an aspiring inventor working to make products available to those who can't afford higher end products, which the big bad companies keep shifting their focus away from. I am FULLY convinced that this movie basically pre-determined the course of my life up to this point. Holy shit.
I don't remember much about this movie but I do recall seeing it in theaters and loving it. It doesn't get talked about often so I'm glad you covered it!
I can't say I'm always a fan of Robin Williams' work, but I can't deny he was a master of comedy either.
This just makes me want to watch all my childhood movies I can think of with my widely new perspective. except robots, like the video says, applies more today than when it was made. I still can't believe robots made "attack helicopter" an actual gender.
On top of that, the movie disc actually has a built-in racing game where it recreates the whole hamster ball scene. It booted up whenever I put it into an OG Xbox.
I got a concept for a sequel:
Bigweld's on his way to retire and pass the torch to Rodney, who is worried if he's truly good enough to fill Bigweld's chair
It's very heroic to save the past and never give up in our dreams like the robot movie said "We can shine no matter what we're made of"!
This was a film I watched many times as a kid. It truly is an underrated film for sure.
Man, I used to watch this movie repeatedly when I was a kid. It was that good.
This is one of the movies that made me fall in love with animation. As a kid I got the classism angle, but i never took in the message of the dangers of capitalism, I just like the art style and design. I'm so happy folks are catching on to this little gem 💎
because it was focusing on Right to Repair and Corporatism not capitalism.
@@thatguybrody4819 Would you mind expanding on that please? I'm not familiar with Right to Repair or Corporatism.
@@Justmyhandle right to repair is a movement that is focused on giving us the consumers and everyday workers back the right to be able to repair the things we have bought and own. Luis Rossman says it a lot better than i do. ua-cam.com/video/Npd_xDuNi9k/v-deo.html
he has a bunch of videos on the topic and each one gives more and more examples and you get a better grasp of it.
as for Corporatism, it's a form of crony capitalism that strips power and control from commoners by having the corporations buy into political factions by subverting the free market. it's represented in the movie by having the main corporation forcing the people to either submit and buy upgrades or outmode into obsolete while having things like the sweepers and chop shot to make sure it's harder and harder for the outmodes to fix themselves as smaller repair shops and free market get slowly snuffed.
both of those seem like symptoms of capitalism to me
@@offbeatkiki they aren't symptoms of capitalism, but symptoms of abuse and undermining of capitalism.
I don't think I've ever heard someone talk about this film I loved as a child.
Can’t believe I never noticed the similarities between Robots and Rollie Pollie Ollie’s art style
I always thought the character designs reminded me of Tim Burton and Joe Murray's character models
Im glad that some of my old childhood favorite films are getting recognized.
I haven’t thought about this movie in a long time, I’m surprised at how well the animation holds up
This was my favorite movie as a kid and even now I love it so much and it always brings me happiness when all else fails
Ah finally people are staring to talk about how my favorite movies from my childhood are awsome.
To me, the message of this movie of "Never Giving Up No Matter What Others Say" is a great message for a children's movie. Thank you, Blue Sky for this great film.
Hot take: this movie is NOT more revenant than ever - our generation is just now old enough to understand what the filmmakers were saying
The movie is literally about driving certain undesirables to extinction. That is what those in power are trying to do now.
@@AngraMainiiu I am talking about the present day war on LGBTQ+ individuals. The propaganda. The misinformation. The implicit endorsement of violence.
If robots came out after 2012, fender would be a tumblr sexy guy
HAHAHA
I adored this movie, still do. Masterpiece. 🔥🔥🔥
I'm happy this aged well! Personally when I think of kid's movies that aged with me my head immediately goes to the Brave Little Toaster. I remember enjoying it as a kid but still taking/appreciating something completely different from it when I was older. I'm happy Robots fits that too. I only remember seeing it once but I remember just feeling inspired to draw different robot/creature designs after I saw it
hey, I was the same age when it came out. My friend, Dallas, had the game for PS2. We played the Heck out of it. It was so much fun as a platformer. The key moment that stuck in our minds was Robin's character saying, "it's a mixture of jazz and funk. we call it 'Junk'" That was the origin of ROFL for us. Looking back, it is a funny joke, but nowhere as funny as it was to our kid selves. They have this movie on Hulu. Now I gotta go re-watch it again for nostalgia sake.
With Bob Iger taking back the position of CEO from Chapek at Disney similar to how Bigweld got it back from Ratchet in this movie, this IS even more relevant.
i think this game may have had a major impact on how i view bodies as just a collection of components piloted by a consciousness
Always reminded of this movie because my mom picked me up from school to see it as a birthday thing. I still find myself saying "upgrades, people, upgrades". The smaller jokes within the movie still make me chuckle and I thoroughly enjoy the larger theme that "Helping citizens to better society even if it's not always profitable is still a W". I mean the villain is literally presented as disregarding those who aren't able to spend extravagantly on upgrades, who instead need to do basic maintenance on themselves. It's the equivalent of higher ups seeing poorer people as not contributing to the economy because all their resources go into just surviving and then they still get screwed when they have no money in a medical emergency. Poor robots are turned into "scrap metal" to be LITERALLY formed into the upgrades for the rich. Their struggle only feeds the luxury of the top. And you could do a whole essay on the fact that the city of the movie has a lot in common with Zootopia in that the mc thinks they can do anything in the big city only to realize, in this case, that wow. There's a lot of poverty here aaand things have changed a lot from what I was led to believe with the whole dream of "you can shine no matter what" and "anyone can be anything", can't imagine that's a reference to anything irl with expectations not meeting the grim reality.
I 100% agree with everything you said. I saw this movie as a kid and LOVED it, and subsequent viewings only more so. Aesthetically, character wise, humor wise and theme wise absolutely nails it.
The song Shine is also great in this movie. A jam to listen on repeat and good for inspiration or lifting your spirits.
The amount of times I didn't buy something because all i heard in the back of my head was "UPGRADES, UPGRADES!" is uncountable.
Sweet fate, good to see one of my childhood movies on the internet! 15+ years after watching it, I think I can say that the Chop Shop introduction was the origin of my crippling fear of rampant industrialism and my absolute love for steampunk.
Ah, yes, themes of good vs evil, such an original concept.
I loved this movie so much as a kid. I had an absolute fascination with robots, so when my parents brought this home from the video rental store, it became one of my new favourites amongst any robot related media I could find.
I hated this movie when I was like 4, it was pretty weird and confusing that those robots didn't seem like real robots, plus it sucks that there's no human people and also it sucks that Fender lost his legs and stayed in the girly legs at the end
I remember loving this film when I was younger, and I never really understood why until recently
I hated this movie as a kid, because they're no humans in this world, and poor Fender lost his legs
This movie was always inspiring to me when I watched it. It also becomes quite relatable as one grows to be a young adult.
This video and some movie reactions to the film made me realize how much I been sleeping on “Robots”. Cause I only seen it one time as a kid.
Great video Kik, I thought about this movie for years and the message it tells and it’s only getting more and more relevant as time goes on. I wish this had gotten the sequel back in the day.
I haven’t seen Robots in forever. Didn’t think much of it as a kid, and almost no one talked about it back then. Didn’t think it would turn into something that people would go on a 180 for. Regarding well, everything about it really.
Why do I feel like this movie is criticizing companies like Apple who deny consumers the right to repair their items? The main villain literally wanted to get rid of the idea of spare parts forcing people to just buy upgrades to their bodies instead and wanted to wipe out Rodney and his friends once they realized they can fix themselves. And I saw a guy repair his old iPad on UA-cam.
This is a blast from the past! I have a save state set up where I vividly remember my little brother wanting to go see this movie in theaters. I was young enough to enjoy it and remember some of the details. I never knew there was so much more going on behind the scenes. Thanks for making this video! You got a new subscriber :D
What about Madagascar?
New fan and I have to say i'm floored with your research from the court documents to the story's origin. The commercials before and after youtube ads are just "chefs kiss". can't wait to see more!
....I'll admit, shocked me a little that William Joyce's biggest work wasn't mentioned 😅 He is also the creator of Rise of the Guardians if anyone is wondering (also George Shrinks and Epic). I hadn't realized he was involved with Robots until I had it playing in the background one day and realized about 30 mins in that the very distinct art style looked familiar 😅 Idk if his name was in the opening credits but my mind has always blocked those out anyways so I just never realized until about a year ago despite watching this regularly since release.
William Joyce also did Meet the Robinsons and Epic
Your the first UA-camr that apologized for adds, I think that's something that will get you far, and well done on the video, I remember this movie, and now looking back, I get your points
This whole video is amazing but thank you for your awareness of the ad services on UA-cam and giving the viewers an explanation to why they are there, honestly the best integration of the UA-cam formula to an individual's project I have seen so far so thank you x awesome vid
This is exactly what I've been saying ever since I rewatched this movie earlier this year. Glad to see I'm not the only one who's made this connection.
this video essay just made me appreciate robots even more and i’m definitely boutta rewatch it now. just found your channel through this and i’m hooked lol. been watching on marathon. love your danny phantom videos!
This movie was a fever dream for me I don’t remember watching it but I remember the characters in a sense and well in my garage when I was little I had Rodney’s boots as a toy never opened lmao
One of my earliest memories was when I was about 2 or 3 and I watched Robots at our babysitter's house. I remember the underground scene scaring the shit of of me lmao.
This is a great video! I especially like the ad breaks bookended by the old trailers for the movie! I can't wait to see more of your work.
Honestly i love every time the screen says “ sorry for ads or I need to pay my bills” nice lil touch
It never occured to me that Robots said "Trans is valid" and I now appreciate this movie much more. Thanks for pointing it out!
I haven’t thought about this movie in years, but I always really enjoyed it. Great to hear that it holds up and had themes that still resonate!
That text about “sorry for the ads” happened immediately after an ad played perfectly timed lol
Shoutout to John Powell for his lively, clever, and beautiful score for Robots, with featured percussion by Blue Man Group!
Rodney is basically the ideal Capitalist hero, with Ratchet being the ideal Capitalist villain.
One sees that if there is a way to profit off helping people, then it's not only morally but logically right to do so.
The other just sees numbers. They see what makes the numbers go up and will do any slimey thing to make that number bigger.
Both are doing it for their own pride and families.
The big difference is that one of them is remembered, loved, and has a future even after death. The other doesn't.
re: "facepainting" and/or "skincare" bringing value
(obviously preventing skin cancers is cool but beyond that:) I go back and forth on this, because on one hand, I and many people get so much genuine joy from the art of it, while at the same time I know that most of the beauty I perceive there is just generated by my own expectations produced by the millions of things I've seen in my lifetime. I've been finding joy in seeing the rough, worn, and 'used' parts in life, and really enjoy the fact that through scrapes from the past, or calluses from learning the guitar, you can really carry your story with you directly, like life's free tattoos. (although some of those reminders can be negative, to me even those currently empower me.)
This is definitely a movie that works better when you suspend your disbelief. A lot of stuff in the world revolves around some really dumb jokes, but also some clever ones! Message still holds up pretty well too I think.
This movie had more imagination and creativity than most recent movies I’ve seen!
Robots was one of my favorites as a kid. I loved the world and it’s’ characters. Loved the video
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It was really cool to see this movie raised again. I watched it a few times when I was a kid but it had sort of slid out of my mind. Coming back to it there's a really interesting undercurrent of the disabiling tendencies of poverty and I think linking the ideal not just to beauty but to function gives it a lens you don't often see in film (where disabiling environments tend to be rather transitory or implicit).
Even down to the missing cover on one of Rodney's legs or the visible gears inside Piper there's a lot to break down.
I like the comparisons with real life with how the richer robots are smoother and shinier whereas as the lower income robots have more different parts on them. The movie isn’t fully funny but I could tell there was some heart put into it and he animation’s pretty advanced, this movie came out before cars wow.
I love opinions about underrated movies that got to the reviewers heart and soul. I feel this way about Storks. That one REALLY got to me as an uncle with a new lil family member.
Robots is just one of those films that you appreciate more as you grow up. Like as a kid, many just enjoy the funny moments, cool designs and pop songs. But as you grow older, Robots just feels like real life, except everyone is a robot and it has a happy ending (while irl, everyone is a regular human and there is no Ewan McGregor type character to save us...yet)
I love the self aware ad breaks
I really like these nice and simple analysis videos, its not a "perfect video" and it doesn't have to be, humans aren't perfect, but we still like seeing others enjoy the same things we do.
Oh man.... AND this was a movie that Amanda Bynes even did voice work in. Before her mental health totally spiraled out of control.
I loved this movie and always felt it was way way too underrated in general.
*I am a recent subscriber and instant fan of all of your videos, binged almost all of them throughout the week! Keep up the great work!*
Watched this movie recently and it still holds up, I enjoyed it even more the second time.
I'm so happy the algorithm gifted me this channel, so excited to see your next (and binge your past) videos
1 problem, Ratchet isn't motivated by profit.
With the cancellation of spare parts, he's cutting out a huge part of the company's consumer base.
He's clearly motivated by his ego, ideology, and mother.
they literally just murder the people who can't afford upgrades and melt them down into material for the new suits.
@@offbeatkiki yeah not motivated by profit.
@@sebastienholmes548 The idea is that they can make more by selling only upgrades to those who can afford it, turn those who no longer can into the upgrades. This eliminates costs of spare part manufacturing since it would be marginal income at best. After a certain societal scale, the production of spare parts per robot would be damn near impossible to keep up. Sure generic bolts and such would be the real moneymaker, but that would barely offset the custom chassis pieces.
You can also see the use of hand-me-down parts indicating that people were probably not even buying enough spare parts or maybe could not always afford them. This indicates that perhaps there were a crap ton of warehoused parts that were just NOT being sold. Melting that down into upgrades would provide a use since they weren't being bought anyways.
I owned robots on dvd as a kid, I would watch it all the time, when the dvd broke after watching it so much, I had my parents buy me a new one 😂
I love how you placed a sorry about the ads right as one popped up 😂
THIS WAS MY SHIT AS A KID
That fact that you were honest about putting up ads is worth a subscriber alone. Still a great video either way
I really gotta watch this movie again soon, I remember watching all the previews on the DVD all the time especially the Malcom in the middle one, great video kiki!
I love how you appologized for the adds
still gotta respect the mum robot for choosing to install the gigacheeks-9000 ass
omg
1:50 For the British Dub they got famous Hosts to voice background Characters like Vernon Kay & the Late Terry Wogan, They had Cat Deeley voicing Loretta Geargrinder & when I first heard the US voice I was confused because I didn't understand why she had to have two different voices 🤨
I still say 'see a need, fill a need!' In Mel Brooks' voice. All the time.
I just re-watched this yesterday and its wild how different i view this now than how i saw it back then.
RIP Robin Williams.
This movie aged like fine wine
you gotta admit their designs are pretty cool
A William Joyce classic
This was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and probably explains why I grew up to be an idealistic trans communist - although recently I've been feeling more like Crank. I have often thought about starting a UA-cam channel literally to make this exact video, because as you said, the themes are SO relevant in our modern world. It touches on late-stage capitalism, corporate greed, worker exploitation, the privatisation of the healthcare industry, ableism, classism, direct action, but also found family, trans acceptance, the importance of believing in your kids, and more. I just love it 😍 great video :D
Utopias aren't real
Trans acceptance? Where? They don't see gender the same way we do so what does that even mean???
@@Yea___ Yeah, but we could get closer to one if we actually tried.
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That's the point. Gender still exists in the form of gender presentation and gender roles, but SEX does not matter. We see this because there are boy and girl robots - explicitly labelled as such - but all they have to do to swap is change their outward presentation (their parts).
There are two examples of "trans" robots:
Firstly, Rodney spends his senior year with girl robot hand-me-downs. He is visibly uncomfortable as a girl, and swaps back to male parts ASAP - he is a cis male.
Secondly, Fender starts the movie as a male-presenting character referred to as Piper's "brother" with he/him pronouns. He then loses his legs and gains a female-presenting set of legs that can lay eggs, along with long metal "hair". From this point onwards, she is referred to with female pronouns and as Piper's "sister" - without comment or question. She is trans/gender fluid/making the best of an unanticipated situation.
The trans acceptance is in the fact that a) transitioning is not seen as a big deal, and b) the other characters do not treat the trans characters any differently. They switch pronouns, but otherwise they are treated as the same robot and do not (visibly) face any discrimination, hostility, or pushback. That's the dream for most trans people: being able to transition without comment or issue - just carry on their life but as the opposite gender. The problem is that there are so many barriers in the way - partly due to the differential treatment of men and women in general.
Tbf, you probably didn't notice it when you were younger because we didn't use those words back then - you just saw it as robots swapping parts - but it's a pretty obvious reference nowadays. Barnyard came out around a similar time and had a trans male cow that went completely unnoticed for years by mainstream society because it's not said in explicit terms. LGBTQ+ animators and filmmakers have slipped gay and trans references into movies under the radar for YEARS.
I never really liked Robots as a kid, since I was horrified of the disapearance of humanity as it was ruled by mechanical people, and I was also so mad that poor Fender lost his legs and stayed in the girly ones as it sucks without them