"Robot Stories" received much praise for both the direction of the film and the director Greg Pak's talent himself. "Variety magazine" said "Greg Pak understands the short form well, mercifully avoiding blatant O'Henry twists while pulling off neat reversals of expertly set-up genre expectations" and Elvis Mitchell of "The New York Times" wrote of Pak's directing in his review saying that " The most startling aspect of Robot Stories is not the mix that the director built from spare parts left on the curb but the evolving dramatic acumen of its maker; he's a talent with a future."