Robot City

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Robot City is a fictional city in the movie Robots. It is a large central city populated by various robots and is home to Bigweld Industries.

Movie director Chris Wedge says New York City (his hometown), Toronto, London, and a little future-like city inspired him to make the city.

There are three parts of the city:

High End District (based on a future-like city): The part of the city where the rich and famous robots live. Buildings and robots are all shiny, nearly everything is futuristic. Everyone here has a metal covering that hides all their inner workings. Bigweld Industries is here.

Combustion District (based on a hybrid of Toronto and London): Middle-class place. It has a few rust, and robots have the internal workings similar to a 1950s car. Aunt Fanny's house is here. Majority of the movie took place here.

Steam District (a parody of New York City ghettos): The lowest part of the city, and therefore the rustiest. It may be also be a ghetto. Parts are out of the Industrial Revolution, and everywhere is filled with broken machines. Madame Gasket's Chop Shop is here. Here, Sweepers grab old robots and bring them to this place, mutant robots then break and melt robots, turning them into new parts.

Isaac Asimov's Robot City is also the name of a series of science fiction books approved by Issac Asimov and written by various science fiction authors.