Editing Robby the Robot (section)

{{Short description|Fictional film and television character}}
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{{Infobox character
| image = Robbie Forbidden Planet.jpg
| caption = Robby the Robot in ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' (1956)
| first = ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' (1956)
| last = ''[[The Invisible Boy]]'' (1957)
| creator = {{plainlist|
* [[A. Arnold Gillespie]]
* [[Arthur Lonergan]]
* [[Irving Block]]
}}
}}

'''Robby the Robot''' is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1956 film ''[[Forbidden Planet]]''.<ref name="Hall of Fame">{{cite web |title=2004 Inductees: Robby, the Robot |url=http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/04inductees/robby.html |website=Robot Hall of Fame |publisher=Carnegie Mellon |access-date=2022-03-07}}</ref> He made a number of subsequent appearances in [[science fiction film|science fiction films]] and television programs, which has given him the distinction as "the hardest working robot in Hollywood".<ref name="Telotte">{{cite journal |last1=Telotte |first1=J.P. |author-link=Jay Telotte |date=2016 |title=Robby the Robot and Robotic Persistence. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44030747 |journal=Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal |publisher=University of Manitoba |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=19–37 |doi=10.1353/mos.2016.a630342 |jstor=44030747 |access-date=2022-03-07|url-access=subscription }}</ref>