Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells, a cadet at the Space Academy on Mars, is in danger of being kicked out unless he can improve his grades. With a little help from the academyтАЩs commandant, Jeff finds a robot named Norby to help him study. But NorbyтАЩs no ordinary robot. He has the only mini-anti-gravity device in existence.
NorbyтАЩs special abilities suddenly come in handy when a villain named Ing targets JeffтАЩs older brother in his quest to conquer the Solar System. When Ing takes over Manhattan Island, renaming it тАЬthe Kingdom of Ing,тАЭ Norby and Jeff put studying aside to teach Ing a lesson!