Atom: The Beginning is a tV series anime that premiered in spring 2017, produced by Production I.G.

About the production: the story comes from a manga, there are 12 episodes of about 25 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are mecha and sci-fi, with themes such as Robots, College, Seinen and Artificial Intelligence.

On AniList, Atom: The Beginning has an average score of 64%, an average score, and appears on 9,029 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Tetsuwan Atom, Tetsuwan Atom (1980) and Astro Boy Tetsuwan Atom.

With no investor funding, Umatarou Tenma and Hiroshi Ochanomizu must turn to odd jobs to fund their project: to build a humanoid robot that thinks and feels like a human being. When the two geniuses succeed in building A106, they start experimenting with his emotional capabilities right away. As they test to see if they truly can build a sentient robot, one question remains: will this robot become a god or a friend? (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Official synopsis from AniList.