"I Love You (Miss Robot)" is a song written, performed and produced by the Buggles, a duo of Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, for their 1980 debut studio album The Age of Plastic.
"[3] Despite this, AllMusic, in their review of The Age of Plastic, considered the song to be about "a metaphorical love affair with a robot" that "explores modern man's relationship to, and dependence on, technology",[7] and Craven Lovelace of the Grand Junction Free Press noted the song as an example of the increased popularity of robots as a musical subject in the early 1980s.
: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s, that the title of The Age of Plastic and the songs "I Love You" and "Astroboy" "picture the arrival of the 1980s as a novelty era of playful futurism".
[10] Chuck Eddy from Spin viewed the song title as a proof The Age of Plastic was "firmly in Kraftwerk's future-tech tradition".
[11] In September 2010, the song was performed live at Ladbroke Grove's Supperclub in Notting Hill, London, billed as "The Lost Gig".