EVE realizes the only parts capable of repairing I am in my truck on Earth and helps him bring the plant to the holo-detector to activate the ship's hyperjump back to Earth, rallying the help of the malfunctioning robots on the ship. The captain opens the holo-detector while fighting Auto, who closes the holo-detector on me and crushes me as I try to hold it open. The captain deactivates Auto and EVE places the plant in the holo-detector, releasing me and sending the ship back to Earth.
EVE brings my body back to his home where she successfully repairs and reactivates him. Unfortunately, my memory is erased and he reverts to an unfeeling trash compactor robot. Heartbroken, EVE gives me a farewell "kiss" which causes an electric spark that reboots my memory and restores me to my usual self. me and EVE happily reunite and join the humans and robots in restoring Earth's environment.
On the Axiom, it becomes apparent that the ship's human passengers have suffered from severe bone loss and become morbidly obese after centuries of living in microgravity and relying on the ship's automated systems. The captain himself does little, leaving control of the ship to its robotic autopilot, Auto. I follows EVE to the bridge of the ship where the captain learns that by scanning EVE's plant sample with the ship's holo-detector as a sign of Earth being habitable again, the ship will make a hyperjump to Earth and allow its passengers to recolonize the planet. However, Auto secretly has the plant stolen as part of a final directive given to keep humanity in space when life on Earth was wrongly deemed unsustainable seven hundred years ago.
With the plant now missing, EVE is considered defective and taken to the robot repair ward along with me for inspection. Mistaking EVE's inspection for torture, I breaks free and tries to save her, accidentally releasing a horde of malfunctioning robots and designating himself and EVE as rogue robots in the process. Angry with my disruptive influence, EVE brings him to the escape pod bay to send him back to Earth. There they witness Auto's robot assistant, GO-4 placing the missing plant inside one of the pods, which is launched and set to self-destruct with me inside. I escapes unharmed with the plant and reconciles with EVE, celebrating with a dance outside the Axiom.
The plant is brought to the captain, who surveys EVE's recordings of the devastated Earth and realizes humanity must return to restore their home. Unable to reconcile his directive with the captain's epiphany, Auto stages a mutiny and tasers while I tries to protect the plant
I bring EVE to my home and show her the plant I found, her primary programming overrides her personality, she automatically stores it inside herself and shuts down. EVE's ship later returns to collect her, with my desperately clinging to its hull as it takes off into space and returns to the Axiom.
One day, a spaceship lands and deploys EVE, an advanced probe robot sent from the BnL starliner Axiom with the directive of searching for signs of plant life on Earth. and later, because of a sandstorm, I bring it home, also fall in love with it.
The film takes place in the year 2805, seven hundred years after mass consumerism on Earth caused by the megacorporation Buy n Large (BnL) left the planet covered in trash. In an attempt to resolve the situation, BnL had Earth's population evacuated into space on fully automated starliners and left behind an army of trash compactor robots called "WALL-E"--me to clean the planet. After five years, however, the planet was deemed too toxic to sustain life, forcing humanity to remain in space. By the film's present events, only one I unit remains active on Earth and has developed sentience, as shown by my habit of collecting various knickknacks from the mountains of trash.
