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Meet Rodney Rodney may refer to:

Surnames
  • Caesar Rodney (1728–1784), Signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and President of Delaware
  • Caesar A. Rodney (1772–1824), U.S.
 Copperbottom. He's he's  

1. Contraction of he is: He's going to school today.

2. Contraction of he has: He's already been to the museum.
 not your ordinary kid. For one thing, he's made of metal. He's also a genius, not to mention the hero of Robots, a new animated film created by Blue Sky Studios Blue Sky Studios is an Academy Award winning computer animation studio which specializes in photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering. , the makers of Ice Age.

Rodney and his equally mechanical friends live in an all-robot world. It is filled with flying machines and wacky gadgets.

"We visited places like junkyards to look for ideas for the characters and the movie's setting," says Carl Ludwig Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (b. 29 December 1816 in Witzenhausen, Hesse, Germany; d. 23 April 1895) was a German physician and physiologist.

He studied medicine in Marburg and Erlangen. In 1842 he became a professor of physiology and in 1846 of comparative anatomy.
, the studio's co-founder "Believe it or not, an aqua-blue boat motor was the inspiration for Rodney's appearance."

To learn more about Rodney and the movie, go to robotsmovie.com.
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