Robby the Robot height - How tall is Robby the Robot?

In the 1990's, Robbie the Robot, made a guest-prop appearance at a 'Save the Rose Theatre' event, as part of an exhibition nearby upon the London Southbank, his numerous guest cameo's linking many other 'Live-Actors', who came from the U.S. to participate in variety of film industry conventions during the same weekend.

Robby stands at a height of 7' 6" tall, weighs about 300 lbs., and was originally operated by an MGM special effects technician Glen Robinson, who subsequently worked on MGM's Logan's Run (1976).

The Barton brothers completed their full-size replica of Robby in the spring of 1975, and celebrated by booking him at as many Star Trek and sci-fi conventions as they could. Robby was a big hit, a major media star once again, even though the clone made all the personal appearances while the original MGM robot stood gathering dust in an Orange County movie museum.

Today, Robby the Robot is a superstar of science fiction, appearing first in Forbidden Planet (1956). Some would say he is the perfect realization of Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Robotics", which Asimov first promulgated in his 1950 story collection, I, Robot.

Robby was the brainchild of, and designed by industrial designer, Japanese-American engineer Robert Kinoshita. It was built in mid-1955 by the MGM prop department, at a reported cost of $125,000, to 'star' in the epic science fiction classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and its B-movie followup The Invisible Boy (1957) a year later.