50 Best Rock Songs About Robots

Best Rock Tracks Featuring Mechanical and Robotic Themes

There’s a strange pulse that runs through songs about machines. It’s cold and human at the same time, like a heartbeat trying to sync with a circuit. You can feel it in those moments when tech starts to blur with identity, when the noise of gears or synths starts to sound almost emotional. These tracks lean into that tension—the friction between steel and skin, logic and instinct. Some aren’t literally tied to robots, but they still hum with that same artificial loneliness, that urge to connect even when everything feels wired wrong.

It’s easy to picture the setting: neon lights flickering across chrome surfaces, late-night labs where nothing feels real anymore, a singer trying to find something human in a mechanical world. The riffs crunch like engines, the vocals flatten and distort until they feel half-machine themselves. A few songs drift into existential panic, others turn it into swagger, turning coldness into something sharp and magnetic. It’s where the future sounds gritty, not sleek, and where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs occasionally cross circuits without even meaning to.

This isn’t about sleek sci-fi fantasies or robot uprisings. It’s the sound of losing your edges to the digital noise, or maybe finding rhythm in it. These songs stretch the idea until it breaks, until the human voice starts to sound like static and the static starts to sound alive. Here are the best rock songs about robots.

1. 'Mr. Roboto' by Styx

2. 'Iron Man' by Black Sabbath

3. 'The Body Electric' by Rush

4. 'Paranoid Android' by Radiohead

5. 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1' by The Flaming Lips

6. 'Electric Eye' by Judas Priest

7. 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' by Tubeway Army

8. 'Computer Love' by Kraftwerk

9. 'Robot Rock' by Daft Punk

10. 'Metal' by Gary Numan

11. 'Computer God' by Black Sabbath

12. 'Technologic' by Daft Punk

13. 'The Robots' by Kraftwerk

14. 'Digital Bath' by Deftones

15. 'She Builds Quick Machines' by Velvet Revolver

16. 'The Body Electric' by The Body Electric

17. 'Robot Stop' by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

18. 'Fitter Happier' by Radiohead

19. 'Coin Operated Boy' by The Dresden Dolls

20. 'The Girl and the Robot' by Röyksopp featuring Robyn

21. 'Computer World' by Kraftwerk

22. 'None of Them Knew They Were Robots' by Mr. Bungle

23. 'The Humans Are Dead' by Flight of the Conchords

24. 'Robots' by Dan Mangan

25. 'My Friend Robot' by Regurgitator

26. 'I'm On Standby' by Grandaddy

27. 'Go Robot' by Red Hot Chili Peppers

28. 'The Body Electric' by The Horrors

29. 'Deeper Understanding' by Kate Bush

30. 'The Model' by Kraftwerk

31. 'Robot Writes a Love Song' by PUP

32. 'The Body Electric' by Hurray for the Riff Raff

33. 'Cyborg Bette' by Clutch

34. 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by The Buggles

35. 'Smasher / Devourer' by Fear Factory

36. 'One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21' by The Flaming Lips

37. 'Automaton' by Jamiroquai

38. 'Mindphaser' by Front Line Assembly

39. 'Han-Tyumi, The Confused Cyborg' by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

40. 'I Am Not A Robot' by Marina and the Diamonds

41. 'Making Plans for Nigel' by XTC

42. 'Algorithm' by Muse

43. 'Automation' by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

44. 'Electric Eye' by The Blood Brothers

45. 'The Robots' by Flight of the Conchords

46. 'I Wrote that Code' by De Staat

47. 'Sample and Hold' by Neil Young

48. 'Robot Boy' by The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

49. 'The Robots' by Looper

50. 'Digital Witness' by St. Vincent