Herb Copperbottom who works, literally as the dishwasher at Gunk's Greasy Spoon Diner and his wife are racing to the hospital one day about to have a baby. After twelve hours of "labor", the baby is built, and they name him Rodney. Rodney grows up aspiring to be a young inventor who wants to change the world for the better. He gets a job working at Bigweld Industries, owned and operated by his idol, Mr. Bigweld. Rodney soon finds that Bigwled is about to be bought out Phineas T. Ratchet, who wishes to discontinue the manufacture of spare parts and focus only on manufacturing new robots. After his father falls ill and they are unable to find spare parts, Rodney must encourage Ratchet that spare parts for older robots are a necessity. Starring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Jim Broadbent, Stanley Tucci, and Robin Williams. Chris Wedge directs from the screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire and Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel; Story by Ron Mita & Jim McClain and Lindsay-Abaire. Produced by Jerry Davis, John C. Donkin and production designer William Joyce; Executive Produced by Christopher Meledandri. Original Score Composed by John Powell with featured percussion by the Blue Man Group; Soundtrack on Virgin Records - featuring new songs from Ricky Fante, Fountains of Wayne, and Earth, Wind & Fire - even Robin Williams improvised two. An Blue Sky Studios first imaginary for Twentieth Century Fox Animation.