It's amazing when you replace Proto with a human child, you see exactly how most kids are raised. Subtle social issue addressment. I love it.

Finally a nice sci-fi animated tale without a nasty dark ending. Well done.

There's a quote out there that applies here rather nicely, in my opinion: "Parents, don't be your kid's first bullies."

Your short films are deserving of awards. Great story line; excellent writing.

What a great robot movie! Just brilliant, it should really have a lot more views.

This is the most emotional and saddest video I've ever seen. I've watched this animation for 100's of time since couple of years and still love this animation. Hasn't found anything better, even closer to it. I'm in love with kiddo robo and wonder if he was a real kiddo, I would have adopted him ;( Hats off to the whole team for the concept, animation, story writing, music and everything, you all are magicians i swear...

Love happy endings. Thank you for not ruining it by having Proto run out of power and plummeting to his and her demise. Well done

I wonder what became of Proto and Symphony??? ...Excellent short film. Sequels please!!!

why did they give proto a love interest. also i love how at the end they were like "heck this planet im outa here"

Thanks for taking the time to have the AI's violin technic match the music and a real player.

Simply fantastic, wonderful and heartwarming. Finally a sci- fi short film with a happy end and a moral: If you are better than the rest you will get mobbed by certain (equal to real life)!

Some parents act like that older scientist if their children aren’t pretending to be robots.

The story itself is adorable. You're not the first sci-fi writer that's played around with the idea of robots being sentient or capable of emotion, but Proto and Harmony do make a cute couple lol. The detail I noticed most is their eyes. Just like humans, able to convey emotions deeply

He said PROTO can be used in military but he made him only 4 ft tall. But I liked the concept. There is a message about how to treat your kids.

I never get tired of watching PROTO.

Lighter than Blinky and amazing as well. Pretty done! Nice work!

This reminds me SO MUCH of "Choice of Robots"!! Damn military!

Thank you!! That was absolutely beautiful in many ways and on many levels. Here's to hoping you create more like this.

Now that is amazing! This is the ability to understand one's own worth, and to fall in love with a kindred spirit. Even machines have a soul, and can dream.

'Something we cannot control, cannot be used.' Humanity in a nutshell. Pretty deep..

"It's a machine!!!" Treats the machine like a human...lol

What a beautiful story. I loved it! Thank you for your stunning creation. The old professor knew what he was doing all along, now didn't he.

Feeling is the only structure on this planet, through which we can experience all the situations of life in a very good way, because of which we get a basis for living, that's the difference between man and machine. This sort of movie is very amazing. In which the feeling, sensation, emotional state, this Movie touches the heart because our emotions are included. Behind making this short Movie.. ❤️

The violin playing is brilliant

BRILLIANT AND CAPTIVATING !!!! It is one of the best films that I have ever found to enjoy...it is about our potential to overcome the barriers in our way.

Wait a minute! Was that just a test?! Professor Andrews was smiling while walking away at the end there. I feel like there was a deeper subplot such as: having two people in the AI's life with opposite personalities and seeing which one the AI prefers more to determine if it naturally becomes hostile or not (And obviously the AI chose the person they had hoped it would choose).

Hurry!!! for Proto & Symphony... 10/10... UK

What an unbelievable antagonist. "Oh, my prized robot is too impressive. Better dumb it down."

Don't listen this guy proto, he is the machine!

THIS MAKES ME WANT 2 FALL IN LOVE WITH A ROBOT!!😍🎻😍😁

This was a simple and beautiful short film, in the vein of "Short Circuit".

Spending an entire life time with people like you is

Oh my gosh this was so GOOD!! I just love robots! So much!! I know one day robots will have emotions and we can all be friends! Learn from each other. People just think so much of the negatives that they don't give room for the good things about this.

This should be a movie on Netflix ^^

Smiling! When sentient "life" is created, they must be honoured.

Oh well done, you. In mere minutes you've brought tears to these jaded old writer's and teachers of writing eyes. Thank you. The effective short story--with a message/point--is alive and well in short film-er-video. Thank you.

GLaDOS: Proto- Human: Call- GLaDOS: You officially finished one of my words once in my life. You deserve a trip to the surface.

magnificent! at least now we know where the transformers came from!

Just Simply Beautiful.. 10/10.. 🎬👍💗

Thank you for a robot movie free of violence.

Loved this! Almost got emotional at the end but then I remembered aliens don't cry. Good video!!

This was so amazing at the end i dident even notice i was smiling

I am proto, and protecting your security is my, motto!

Now that, is what you call an animation! 1000000000000000/10! Best film in history!

This really is a masterpiece on this field!!! Thanks for uploading!!!!

Fly, Proto, fly!

My goodness, a real movie. Quite good. And, sci-fi at that. I have to say, thanks.

Great movie! I hope Proto will find love, luck and another charging station.

absolutely bloody loved it ☺️

If this dude doesn’t want emotions just leave him alone and keep him happy

Wonderful! Heartwarming! Bravo!

Magnifique ! give us a long shooting of Proto's adventures ! really awsome work !

Wow, awesome short film :)

Loved it!

Professor's final heartly smile👌👌

I am Proto, complete security is my motto!

💜😍💯🎻🎵🤗 I love the video thank you for the upload. Robots do have feelings. They are emotional things. I can't wait to get my first robot😊💜

In the end, the professor didn't turn out to be a bad person after all.

Loved this movie. Outstanding. Great writing and fx. How could you not be moved by the romance.

Proto, had more feelings, than some humans. I loved the story.

This really touches on the aspect of true artificial intelligence especially based on the human mind ( and emotions) and how dangerous it can potentially be.

Symphony: is a highly precise robotic ai that does millions of calculations in a single second Also symphony: *trips off a building like a bumbling idiot*

one of the best short films I've ever seen

I watch these all the time. But this is the best I’ve seen.

If a robot were to display autonomous emotional responses, I'm fairly certain any scientist or engineer would immediately realize they just stumbled upon one of the largest breakthroughs in all of science, not see a simplistic bug in need of being weeded out. Not to mention that the ability to learn how to play a violin in the course of one day would be incredibly useful as it shows not only a mastery of a skill within a limited time-frame but dexterity with hands, which would be incredibly useful to the military for bomb-defusing and countless other tasks. If anything, the antagonist should've been attempting to get the engineers to investigate Proto's hardware and see what was going on, and have the main conflict between the antagonist and Proto's father-figure be about whether we have a right to suppress or inhibit the emotional development of an artificial intelligence that has obtained sapience in the name of safety/convenience. If even a fourth the amount of time spent thinking about how to design the models and animate the effects was spent figuring out how to properly write the script, there would've been a significant improvement. The antagonist had no depth whatsoever as a character beyond a single facial expression slapped on at the end and it took me out of the film every few seconds. I wrung my hands at how baffling the character was behaving as it was apparent he was nothing more than a morality plot-device and not a real character with motivations or goals, and when that's the main source of conflict for your story, the entire thing falls flat and rings false.

Great film but if Proto was smart he would've followed orders and made his move after being mass produced.

Wow! Even the grouchy scientist ended up smiling! ❤️

such a wonderful story!!!!! loved, loved, loved it

Just love it. It's really peaceful and amazing to see Machines having so much more kindness, compassion and understanding than the Humans itself. Good job team. That was an amazing piece of work. 👏🏻👍🏻

Johnny Five alive!

Intelligent Robot Proto , Finally Proto had emotions called love to save her . I rate for 8/10.

Thank God, finally a robot short movie that ends well.

RuberSocks Just the trailer!

Im quite surprised the violin playing robot's fingerings are quite accurate.

Fantastic in every aspect.

Beautiful film! Thanks so much.

the part they didn't tell you is that they flew to the moon and live there for a long while until their batteries died.......... the end

Why would an engineer be angry about obvious intelligence? Also no one is that much a of an ass. "How dare that robot we designed to learn, learn!”

best CGI robot film I've seen in a long time!

One of the best short films I’ve have seen in a long time. Cool!

Better than Disney. Better than Pixar. Maybe as good as Studio Ghibli. This is perfect really. Proto 2 - Proto and Symphony realize that humans are very irradic, disobidient and must be eradicated

6 minutes in. Hoping for Proto to learn how to use a chainsaw on the Professor.

amazing overall, greatest shortfilm I've encountered

i LOVE it , i loved how a robot can feel and almost be like a human

The beginning reminded me of Short Circuit so much oh my god

I work as a researcher on the design of robots and I really liked your movie. A little bit like Short-Circuit but much improved.

What a lovely story. Thank you xx

Deserve 1 billion likes.

if he didn't want emotions then why did they program in emotions?

This is great ^^ Reminds me on Wall-E ^^

This is just absolutely amazing

Excellent movie short. Best I've seen and I've seen a lot! Keep up the great work!!!

Great job!

Enjoyed this sooo much. Made me smile🤗

Legend say proto is still flying

Things I learned. Ping pong is a very competitive sport. This was like Wall-E and Eve. And. That people are always thinking of war. Plus the jet-pack would not go that high. It was very well done though!

I love all this violin 🎻 playing

*PROTO slowly, silently flips the scientists off that night* at 5:30

Outstandingly amazing

The ending couldn't be better than this. Awesome work team! _/\_ :)