The robot from TV’s “Lost in Space,” never given a name on the series, was designed by Robert Kinoshita, also the creator of Robby from “Forbidden Planet.” Although endowed with superhuman strength and futuristic weaponry, he often displayed human characteristics such as laughter, sadness, and mockery. Robby made his first appearance in the 1956 MGM movie “Forbidden Planet.” Robby is the film’s most memorable character and is responsible for the cult following the movie carries. The film was released in the middle of the Cold War, and Gort embodies the threat of the unknown. Introduced in the movie classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” Gort comes to Earth as the robot bodyguard of the mysterious spaceman, Klaatu. The robot is never named in the film, but she is an attempt to make an evil mechanical duplicate of the beautiful heroine, Maria. One of the first robotic icons in science fiction, Maria appears in “Metropolis,” a silent German film directed by Fritz Lang and set in the year 2026 (at the time, 100 years in the future). The robot towers over most others in the Hall of Fame and holds true to its claim as a giant.

However, because of home video releases and television syndication, it now has a cult following and it is considered a modern animated classic. and released in 1999, the film was critically acclaimed and won nine Annie Awards, but significantly underperformed at the box office. In the movie, the alien robot lands near Rockwell, Maine and befriends a local 9-year-old boy, but it faces danger when a paranoid government agent seeks to destroy the robot.

The Iron Giant is the star of a science fiction, comedy-drama animated film by the same name. Make your way down as you check out seven replicas of some of the most popular robots-and see how they’ve evolved throughout the years. The replica robots lining our “walk of fame” are a tribute to the fictional machines that helped spark the imaginations of those who created real robots that followed. The first robots were creations of imagination rather than engineering.

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