Vilka är föräldrarna eller skaparna av Roboten Robot?

Robert Kinoshita designade både "Robby the Robot" och "Robot" (B9) från TV-serien "Lost In Space". De två robotarna har träffats i ett avsnitt av TV-serien "Lost In Space": "Robots War".

Från wikipedia:

Based on the script, A. Arnold Gillespie, the chief of special effects for Forbidden Planet, came up with the design that everyone liked, according to Arthur Lonergan, after he and Lonergan had sketched and discarded numerous ideas. Gillespie based his design on the shape of the old-fashioned pot-bellied stove. Lonergan turned over Gillespie’s rough design sketches to production illustrator Mentor Huebner, who refined the aesthetic look of the robot (Huebner claims that Robby was his design). "I designed about fifteen of them, and they finally lit on one that was used," he said. Huebner also mentioned that Gillespie’s early Robby sketch as a refinement of Huebner’s concept. Lonergan, however, remembers that Gillespie originated the idea, and points out the Huebner would refine Gillespie’s ideas, not the other way around. Huebner abandoned Gillespie’s slip cast rubber legs, similar in design and operation to the arms, and hit upon the jointed ball configuration for the robot’s legs. "I thought of having a very short man inside, being able to look out of the stomach, and then have a false head built on him which brings him up to average height," said Huebner. Gillespie’s concept had the operator’s head inside the robot’s clear plastic dome. Huebner’s changes didn’t alter Gillespie’s basic design, but resulted in the clean lines and well-proportioned appearance that makes Robby so popular and pleasing to the eye.

By the end of 1954, the art director, Arthur Lonergan turned Huebner’s work over to Robert Kinoshita, head draftsman of the art department, who would produce the working drawings and blueprints for Robby’s construction under Gillespie’s supervision. With his miniature scale model of Robby approved, Kinoshita began drafting the plans from which the robot would be constructed. Kinoshita’s working drawings were turned over to Jack Gaylord, head of MGM’s Prop Shop, who was in charge of the molding and assembly of Robby’s plastic parts.

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Det var 3 enheter gjorda för filmen, och de 3 såldes till olika personer. Jag arbetade med killarna som ägde ett av originalen (och de hävdade att deras original var det enda med originell arbetselektronik), och de kom fram med det på en episod av Love Boat (episoden kallades "Programmed for Love" och var cheesy som alla andra episoder av LB). En av ägarna hävdar att de har "det enda" originalet och tenderar att stämma på folk som äger de andra 2 originalerna såväl som folk som har byggt replika. Midjan är extremt smal och jag verkar komma ihåg att ingen med midja större än 28 eller 30 tum skulle kunna passa i dräkten.