The story revolves around the quest of two robots (the band members, played by Peter Hurteau and Michael Reich) to become human.

The duo instead served as directors and co-wrote the film, along with Daft Arts manager Paul Hahn and collaborator Cédric Hervet.

After passing through a Southwestern United States landscape, the duo arrives by car at a town in Inyo County, California.

[3] The town's residents are also shown to be robots physically identical to the two main characters, but at different ages, with different clothing and alternating gender.

The resulting look caricaturizes the members of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

Daft Punk's previous directorial credits include the music videos for their songs "Fresh", "Robot Rock" and "Technologic".

The duo initially shot footage for a music video of the song "Human After All", but expanded the content for a feature-length film instead.

[5] According to Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Daft Punk's Electroma had been an unplanned extension of filming videos for the Human After All album.

In April 2011, the Ferrari 412 used for the film was auctioned for charity, alongside the original 'HUMAN' license plate signed by Bangalter and Homem-Christo.

[3] Midnight screenings of Daft Punk's Electroma were shown in Paris theaters from the end of March 2007.

[14] The film went on a screening tour of the United Kingdom, beginning in July 2007 and ending in October at the BBC Electric Proms.

[16] Vice Records sponsored Canadian midnight showings on December 7 in Victoria, Banff, Calgary, Winnipeg, Fort McMurray and Toronto.

[20] The film became available for online viewing on the Lycos Cinema platform as a rental streamed at either standard or high definition.

On 22 February 2021, Daft Punk released a video titled "Epilogue" on their YouTube channel, featuring scenes from the film.

Following a clip in which the pair bid each other farewell in the desert before one of them walks away and explodes, a new title card reads "1993–2021".

At the same time, the film was unfavorably compared with Gus Van Sant's Gerry and Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny for its extensive hiking sequence.

The scenes involving the main characters' desert trek reportedly caused a large portion of the audience to leave the theater at the Cannes Film Festival showing.