Little Robots is a stop-motion animated children's TV series, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Create TV and Film Limited (formerly the film and television division of LEGO Media) and broadcast on CBeebies, and was based on the eponymous book by Mike Brownlow in 1999, published by Ragged Bears Publishing.

The show focuses on, well, little robots, who live under a scrap heap in a city on which they found themselves abandoned. They create a whole world to live in using whatever they find in the scrap heap, building their homes around a nut and bolt tree. They get into all sorts of adventures together and are always finding new and interesting ways to make do with otherwise useless things.

An American English dub was produced in 2005 for Cartoon Network's now-defunct Tickle-U block, and was later released on DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Tropes:

• Androids Are People, Too: All the characters are robots that feel and act more like everyday human beings.
• Be Yourself: The song "Anyone Can Sparkle" from the episode "Sparkle Day" features the lyrics:
  Anyone can sparkle
  Brighter than a star
  If you make the most of
  Who… you… are!
• Big "NO!": Stretchy combines this with Rapid-Fire "No!" in the episode "Stretchy in a Twist" when he takes back the stuff Rusty was taking from his junkyard.
• Catchphrase: The Sparky Twins have "Gimmie Three, Sparkee!"
• Chased Off into the Sunset: "Stretchy's Yard Guard" ends with Spotty chasing after Stretchy after he mocks her by recording her calling Stretchy a "very, very silly robot" with Noisy's recorder, with Tiny saying that he'll have to turn Stretchy's yard guard into a "Spotty guard".
• Companion Cube: Stripy's best friend is an inanimate teddy bear named Teddy, yet he seems to somehow understand what he's saying, despite being a toy.
• Control Freak: Spotty is very bossy and demanding most of the time, which makes things hard for the other robots. A good example of this is the episode "Wheels Are Fun" where when she bans the other robots from using skateboards and roller skates just because she slipped and fell on one.
• Gentle Giant: Stripy is one of the larger robots of the bunch, and he's very laid-back, slow, speaks in a calm, deep voice, carries a teddy bear with him, and loves to tell stories to his friends.
• Haunted House: Scary owns one in dark ride form. It plays a major plot point in some episodes, such as "Scaredy-Bot Goes Boing", where Rusty goes on it in order to prove her bravery to Sporty.
• Hiccup Hijinks: Noisy gets the "Hiccalots" in one episode, which causes her to endlessly hiccup and honk at the same time. It's only when Sporty blows air into a balloon until it pops when she's cured.
• High-Pressure Emotion: Rusty constantly steams out of her head whenever she's feeling scared or stressed.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Sporty's Huge Guy to Rusty's Tiny Girl.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Sparky One has a pink spot on her belly, and Sparky Two has a yellow spot on her belly.
• Lovable Jock: Sporty definitely qualifies. He's one of the nicest robots and he loves to exercise, whether it's jogging, lifting weights, or running on his treadmill.
• Meaningful Name: All of the robots have one. For example, a tiny robot named Tiny, a robot covered in spots named Spotty, a scary robot named Scary, a noisy robot named Noisy, and so on.
• Mr. Fixit: Tiny. The Expository Theme Tune explains how, after repairing his own arm he fixed up everyone else (he is shown wrenching Stripy's arm back on). And he is the one the others go to if they are ever damaged. It helps he keeps his tools in his head so he can go anywhere.
• NO INDOOR VOICE: Noisy, hence the name. She screams a majority of her dialogue at the top of her lungs.
• Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: In "Seeing Double", when Sporty and Messy accidentally break Tiny's replica of himself into pieces, Sporty apologizes to the replica just as the real Tiny walks up behind him:
  Sporty: Not now Tiny, I'm talking to TINY—?! [Double Takes]
• OOC Is Serious Business: In "Not A Drum Was Heard", Spotty starts feeling guilty of stealing Noisy's drum and when she accidentally destroys it by rolling over it, she breaks down crying.
• The Pollyanna: Tiny is almost never not happy, and is always optimistic.
• Robot Dog: The character Messy is one. He very often hangs out with the other robots, but most of the time with Tiny, and only communicates with barks.
• Rube Goldberg Device: In "Not Just Junk", Tiny, Scary and Sporty build one out of Stretchy's junk to cheer up Stretchy after his gives all the junk in his yard away for free.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Stretchy frequently uses complex wording in his conversations, leaving the other little robots puzzled at times. Take this example from "One Hundred":
  Stretchy: "My, my, my, my, my that's the most advanced case of ferrous oxidization I've ever seen!"
  Sporty: (confused) "What?"
  Spotty: "What he means it's rusty!"
• Shrinking Violet: Rusty is very shy most of the time, even when she's trying not to embarrass herself by simply calling someone's name.
• Tank-Tread Mecha: Stretchy has continuous tracks instead of feet like the other robots.
• Theme Tune Roll Call: "There's Tiny, Messy, Sporty, Stretchy, Rusty, Stripey, Noisy, Spotty, Scary... (Woo!) ...Flappy the bat, the Sparky twins... that's that!"
• Theme Twin Naming: The Sparky Twins' names would be exactly same if not for an indicating number afterward. One is named Sparky 1, and the other is named Sparky 2.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Sparky Twins are the tomboys to Rusty's girly girl.
• Two Men, One Dress: The Sparky Twins do this when they dress up as the Bedtime Badbot to scare up their friends in the titular episode.
• Vanilla Edition: The two DVD releases of the US dub by 20th Century Fox only had four episodes each, an episode selection screen, no bonus features, and only one audio track with no subtitles.
• Workaholic: Stretchy is almost always shown to be very busy at his junkyard. "Stretchy In a Twist" involves him twisting his long neck in a knot due to overwork.