Still of Richard Eyer and Robby the Robot in The Invisible Boy (1957)
Caption: Still of Richard Eyer and Robby the Robot in The Invisible Boy (1957)
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Actor
Born: July 1, 1955
Star sign: Cancer
Height: 6' 11" (2.11 m)
Known for: Forbidden Planet (1956), The Invisible Boy (1957), Likely Stories, Vol. 3 (1983), Gremlins (1984)
Source: IMDB
Robby was the brainchild of, and designed by industrial designer, Japanese-American engineer Robert Kinoshita. It was built in mid-1955 by the MGM prop department, at a reported cost of $125,000, to 'star' in the epic science fiction classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and its B-movie followup The Invisible Boy (1957) a year later. Robby the Robot has...