{"id":6009,"date":"2014-01-11T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2014-01-11T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:39:30","slug":"robbie-the-co-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6009","title":{"rendered":"Robbie the Co-Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader responds to the <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5985\" target=\"_blank\">earlier posting<\/a> about robot assistants in space with a link to this documentary about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robby_the_Robot\" target=\"_d\">Robby the Robot<\/a>, a metallic character first seen in the marvelous 1956 movie\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forbidden_Planet\" target=\"_d\">Forbidden Planet<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ptHtb7RPRw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader responds to the earlier posting about robot assistants in space with a link to this documentary about\u00a0Robby the Robot, a metallic character first seen in the marvelous 1956 movie\u00a0Forbidden Planet:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-films-and-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1yV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5985,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5985","url_meta":{"origin":6009,"position":0},"title":"FISO: Co-Robots and the future of space activity &#8211; Madhu Thangavelu","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. 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