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I would say The Hoobs, but they weren't robots.
Around what time did you watch this series?
i remember something similar to this but with two robots. the female one was tall and long and the male one was small and round. i remember it being on bbc 2 when i was sick off school. the little round one would take the spaceship and the tall one would get annoyed at him. it was cgi animated and around very 90's to early 2000's
I don't think this is it, but worth me saying anyway because it's so obscure that it took years for me to find it - Destination: Space?
I cannot really remember where I used to watch this show, but it was an educational show where 3 robots lived up in a spaceship orbiting Earth. Every episode, they would send a spherical ship piloted by one of the robots and research about phenomena on Earth. They where by themselves small enough that they looked like toys and people wouldn't notice them, specially since they where just using footage. I cannot remember anything else besides 2 episodes:
- The spherical ship got hit by a thunder and got thrown out close to a garbage can. The other 2 robots on the spaceship would try to find a way to return him to he mothership, which was only through an emergency return lever that got turned heads down due to the crash. Here, they teach about circuits. - The robot inside the spherical ship noticed that it goes through a lot of turbulance when going too fast. They then research about aerodynamics, about how different forms "cut" air, and how turbulance is generated by small "tornadoes" on the tail of each form when seen through a wind tunnel. When they tried with the "airplane" shape, it was seen that it cut air perfectly.
Edited by Rockcrimson