"Everyday Robots" is a song by Damon Albarn, from his solo debut album, Everyday Robots. It was released as a single in digital and limited edition 7" vinyl formats on 3 March 2014, via Warner Bros. Records in the US. Moreover, the album's title track was released with a non-album B-side called "Electric Fences". The song also contains samples of 1940-1950s comic performer Lord Buckley's hipsemantic rant about Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.

A music video for the song was released on 20 January 2014.

Albarn conceived the song while stuck in a traffic jam in California. He explained to XFM's John Kennedy. "I was just watching everyone around me and everyone is so lost in their little worlds: on the telephone, listening to music." One of the verses begins with the lyric, "Everyday Robots just touch thumbs," which Albarn admitted to Kennedy is his vision of years to come. "I always like to sing to the future and imagine it, I've always done that," he said. "I remember when I wrote 'The Universal' it was just when the idea of satellites were really fresh, and the lottery and everything, and now it's just such a part of everyone's reality. It's not a direct vision of the future it's just you feel that's what's going to happen," he added. "I like the idea of, in the future, we've only got thumbs. I don't like it, actually, it terrifies me."

Marc Hogan of Spin wrote: "With not only strings and keyboard but also burbling electronics and non-Western flutters, the song is a stirring addition to a catalog of subdued stunners like Gorillaz' "On Melancholy Hill" or Bobby Womack's "Please Forgive My Heart" (which Albarn co-produced)." Michael Cragg of The Guardian also stated: "Opening with what sounds like strangely filtered strings, piano and creaking, muffled beats, the opening line – 'we are everyday robots on our phones' – makes it clear this particular track focuses on the nature/technology dichotomy as opposed to anything deeply personal." He also compared the work to Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's solo works, most particularly to the songs in The Eraser, while also describing it as "paranoid and pretty."

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