"I think we are children of technology ourselves, because we are not virtuosos in music or anything, we really are able to do what we do only through technology. The robots are these metaphors for technology, the conflict between technology and mankind, and how technology today is completely invading our lives, from our iPods to our cellphones, and how it's super-practical. It's making, in all of us, these supermen, these superheroes, and it's true that the robots are very exciting and interesting characters because they're a paradox: they're super-sexy and sleek and cool, but also these terrifying things that could replace mankind, and that's pretty scary."
- Thomas Bangalter