Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the tenth studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on July 16, 2002, by Warner Bros. Records.

The album saw the band pursue a more electronic direction than previous efforts, incorporating acoustic guitars and rhythms influenced by hip hop and top 40 music.

The title character is inspired by musician Yoshimi P-We of Boredoms/OOIOO, following a comment in the Flaming Lips studio that her unusual singing style sounds like she is battling monsters.

[7] The final track, "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)", won a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has had a bigger commercial impact[specify] than the band's 1999 breakthrough album The Soft Bulletin, and became their first gold-certified release in April 2006.

[24] Calling the album "as strange as it is wonderful", Billboard nonetheless noted that "beneath the sunny, computer-generated atmospherics and the campy veneer of talk about gladiator-style clashes between man and machines with emotions, Yoshimi is actually a somber rumination on love and survival in an unfathomable world.

"[25] Tom Moon of Rolling Stone praised the album's "ambitious" production,[26] while Fortune magazine called it "a lush and haunting electronic symphony.

"[23] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a three-star honorable mention rating,[28] indicating "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure".