Kimagure Robot (きまぐれロボット) is a series of ten two-minute shorts that were sponsored by Yahoo!
The episodes were broadcast in 2004 and most shorts were directed by a different Studio 4°C director.
[2] All ten episodes are characterized by a futuristic science-fiction setting in which an eccentric scientist with a genius for invention works to create a host of robots, each designed to help humans in a different but very particular and often counter intuitive manner.
As the robots interact with their human masters and their surroundings in pre-programmed ways unanticipated problems arise and provide for a variety of comedic situations.
AnimeNation's John Oppliger described Kimagure Robot as an "artistic and esoteric anime" and decried the lack of awareness of complex and avant-garde titles like this in American anime consumers.