#Robbie the Robot

[retroscifiart]

Peter Jones ‘Neural Atrocity’ (author: Mick Farren, 1976)

[chernobog13]

Robbie the Robot at the conn of the C-57D at the conclusion of Forbidden Planet (1956). That was the perfect place for him, as he could unerringly operate the ship whilst the human crew went into stasis.

I always wanted to see more adventures of Commander Adams, Robbie, and the rest of the crew of C-57D as they explored the galaxy.

Instead, I had to wait 31 years for this:

[doctorslippery]

(via Forbidden Planet Remake by Slofkosky on DeviantArt)

[0lizard-shark0]

Imagine a big robot just walks on in- followed by a kitty :3

@starrz-n-waffl3-fries

[krinsbez]

A Classic SF Film Poll

Do you think the name of the robot from the classic SF film Forbidden Planet (as well as various other things) is spelled "Robbie" or "Robby"?

[the-insidious-dr-grey-matter]

[thefoilguy]

Robbie the Robot from The Forbidden Planet - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[vermilllionsands]

[jedivoodoochile]

[geekhombre]

The Android Machine

Dee Hartford playing Verda. Not the best commentary, but ...

Pretty good episode.

Will she go for any robot?

Lost in Space (1966)

[xabiramone]

Robby the Robot and Anne Francis on the set of the film "Forbidden Planet" (1956)

[billherbert23]

informationist tech: my robot butler fox

File under: things which never were and yet are now no longer there

(This appeared on Kona MacPhee's website, That Elusive Clarity, in 2012 as one of the ‘six things’ she asked me to list, kicking off a habit of thinking in, more usually, threes, fives, and sevens, as a limitation that enabled some retention and processing of ideas. More recently, ie last week, I had been wondering if the robot out of Lost in Space* was sentient, so it was nice to be reminded of this by encountering the phrase ‘robot butler’ on TwittereX.)

My robot butler fox is a Jeevesian mass of limbs, levers and oily tentacles emitting from this giant steel periwinkle shell on casters with inbuilt sock drawers and fridge components.

When you squeeze past the claws there's an interior shower unit, the curtain for which depicts physicists working on Hawkwind’s key problem of space rock, how to travel ‘sideways in time’, and a Corbie newspaper press (manufactured by real crows) that perfectly straightens and flattens The Dundee Courier and Advertiser until it is one molecule thick.

Also on the outside is that big clockface from Prague which tells the hours backwards, the direction in which (it sometimes feels) we are actually pointed, though if we were our teeth would be able to sculpt perfect meals from a throatful of undigested pap.

In the smaller convolutes are placed: an ant orchestra; the egg-scrambling device he constructed himself before I could explain what eggs were and now refuses to update; and what surely can't be a real fox's head in a bubble.

He wakes me with one freshly-baked fortune cookie and a cup of peppermint tea, its leaves gathered from the Cretan hills, with a sugar cube in it which he carves himself (sometimes it's a sugar pyramid).

My fortune this morning was 'You will meet a river cobbler' - as yet, I haven't.

*My Will Robinson child mind had assumed this robot and Robbie the Robot of Forbidden Planet were the same robot, but they are not and in fact engage in combat in an episode I do not recall, ‘War of the Robots’ - I’ll try to view this in the future and report back…

[notesfromthecactuspatch-blog]

"This Is Going To Be A Little Uncomfortable"

The Day Of “The Procedure” Arrives I’ve gone through three-quarters of my life not dwelling on or talking about medical conditions. Since I’ve become an old fart, well, it comes with the aging process. As a small child, I was perplexed when the older relatives sat around and compared ailments. My grandmother was the queen bee of that circle and the biggest hypochondriac that ever breathed. I’m…

[fisherrprince]

big fan of @therenobee’s design/model, completely unbiased

[paulgadzikowski]

He's gonna get profiled as counting cards

[ludinusdaleth]

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 1, "The Draw of Destiny"

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