So, you’ve found yourself in the crowd of another cartoon where an outsider to society finds a handful of misfits within that society and with a lot of training montages, they all become stronger for their bond.

Familiar? Yes.

But, you may want to wait to view “The Wild Robot” in its entirety before you activate your homing beacon.

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Washed up on the rocks of an uninhabited island, an advanced model of robot accidentally activates to life. Rozzum Unit 7134 (voice of Lupita Nyong’o) is a particularly adaptive model and wastes no time acclimating to the climate and wildlife.

Although that’s easier said than done when the native flora and fauna of a strange new place is either trying to kill you or terrified of you. After some considerable missteps in its new surroundings, the curious automaton slowly learns how to communicate with the variety of forest animals roaming the island in order to serve its primary objective — aiding anyone who needs help performing a task.

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However, even when they’re able to speak with this mechanical presence, the critters aren’t interested in its assistance, seeing the strange presence as a disruption to their habitat.

But there’s one exception — a newborn gosling that immediately becomes attached to the metal maternal figure, which in turn finds new purpose in this responsibility.

Throughout her character’s journey, Nyong’o begins with a polite customer service tone as a machine that’s built for household chores — Siri and Alexa would be proud — that’s steadily infused with more warmth and emotion as she becomes more ingrained in this world, taking on the nickname Roz in the process.

As an adoptive parent in a completely unfamiliar environment, she may not be the best choice for teaching a baby bird how to get along in the world — as evidenced by the little guy’s mimicry of all her beeps, boops and whirs when he walks — or maybe she’s exactly what he needs.

Of course, if you’re listening to her only other companion, the whole thing is a terrible idea. Pedro Pascal a delightfully sardonic voice for Fink, whose vulpine slyness in cozying up to the only indestructible thing on the island belies a need to find someone who actually likes him.

They may have come from another studio, but famed cartoon foxes Foulfellow, Robin Hood and Nick Wilde all seem to have inspired this guy, whose only difference in presentation is walking on all fours with no clothes.

The forest is rich with perfectly cast vocal talent by actors who know how to make the most of supporting roles, among them Catherine O’Hara, whose ability to play an exasperated mom is on point as always as an opossum named Pinktail who doesn’t get too attached to her litters.

You try and try to show those kids how to pretend to be dead convincingly, and how do they thank you? Getting eaten…

Likewise, Matt Berry is perfection as an arrogant beaver who loves being the local engineer but doesn’t actually like helping anyone else; Ving Rhames brings it as a loner falcon who begrudgingly gets involved with Roz’s attempts to rear a child who happens to have wings; and Mark Hamill adds his raspy growl as the hideaway’s apex predator who’s not happy about the machine in their midst.

By throwing in the deepest of deep cuts in robot mythos into Roz’s name, this adaptation of Peter Brown’s children’s book starts on the right foot and just keeps going strong in its depiction of what technology can do in a purely natural setting. At first, it’s disruptive and even dangerous, but as it adapts to the way things are, it learns how to be less intrusive with some species and more nurturing to others.

Hey, artificial intelligence can be very good or very bad depending on who, or what, is using it. And Survival of the Fittest in its truest sense means that if the weaker animals learn to harness tools, more power to them.

What really sets this instant classic from DreamWorks Animation apart is a textured visual design that feels more real in its presentation of the grandeur of nature. Yes, it’s all ultimately computer-generated, but it doesn’t have to look like it, and the work by this team is dazzling.

When he made the live-action “Call of the Wild” with CGI animals, director Chris Sanders didn’t reckon with how the uncanny valley would throw off an otherwise solid story, but when you’re able to retain that same sense of “something looks odd here” without detracting from the rest of the scene, that’s when you have something great.

The beauty of this story is also that for as much impact as Roz has on the forest denizens, she also becomes more naturalized — whether it’s a leg replaced by a log or the moss that

Gradually accumulates on her, she starts to become one of them in the most wonderful sense.

You may be expecting “WALL•E” in reverse or “How to Train Your Dragon” with much smaller creatures, yet “The Wild Robot” manages to be both and neither.

It’s certain to make everyone feel something, but some of us will really feel it in the core of our processing unit.

That’s robot talk for heart.