That Robot I believe I'd called Treds I read an article from a deleted star wars scene. It is possible All E was inspired by this because Disney did but Star Wars years later so it is possible that Disney had been looking into this movies for ideas.
My 6 year old daughter actually pointed this out to me a few days ago. She found my box of original Star Wars figures and so I popped in the movie for her. DADDY IT'S WALL-E!!!! Had to rewind it about 20 times for her! lol
No, Short Circuit is from 1986. This scene is from 1977 and the robot looks different. This same robot can also been seen in this deleted scene from the first movie: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CNfIQVplY9U.html