סטיבן שפילברג ביים סרט מדע בדיוני, המסתמך על תסריט שחיבר חברו הטוב והבמאי הנערץ עליו, סטנלי קובריק ("התפוז המכני", "אודיסאה בחלל 2001"). הסרט שואב את השראתו מאגדת פינוקיו. מעשה בילד רובוט (היילי ג'ואל אוסמונט, "החוש השישי") שמופרד מהוריו, כמה לאהבה ומשתוקק להיות בן אנוש. ג'וד לאו ("הכשרון של מר ריפלי") מגלם רובוט סקסי המספק את לקוחותיו.
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
After inadvertently inputting the qualities of the ideal boyfriend into a high-tech government computer, two social outcasts named Mae and Gabby must contend with Albert, a cybernetic sweetheart with only objective: to treat Mae to the perfect highschool romance.
Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn, a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human, and its dream is to become a real man. Electronic escapes from the professor's lab and accidentally meets Sergey, his prototype. Meanwhile, a gang lead by Stump is trying to kidnap Electronic to make him steal pictures from museums. For this purpose they send their hitman Urrie.
In a future in which human-like androids have become commonplace companions and servants, one, with a handsome male appearance, finds its owner's feelings difficult to understand and her desires impossible to fulfill.
A robot boy's obsessive quest to make his life better by realizing the way is through following his heart.
Robo Wonder Kid and his mythological creature friends get into a scuffle with a mud troll.