Kid Cosmo’s head is enormous, as robot heads go. The primary nonhuman hero of the film “The Electric State” (on Netflix March 14), Cosmo has a bright yellow globe of a head the size and ...

Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt in The Electric State. The final scene of the movie shows Cosmo — the cartoon-based robot whose body Christopher’s mind inhabited — being taken to the dump.

But her super-smart sibling Christopher may well still be alive when a robot named Cosmo breaks into her room to convince her to journey across the American West to find the real Christopher. With ...