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Robert Kinoshita | Robot designer, 100

Robert Kinoshita, 100, who designed beloved film and TV robot characters, including the bubble-headed Lost in Space robot that made "Danger, Will Robinson" a catchphrase of the 1960s, died Dec. 9 at an assisted-living facility in Torrance, Calif., of congestive heart failure, his daughter, Pat Aoki, said Wednesday.

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Robert Kinoshita, 100, who designed beloved film and TV robot characters, including the bubble-headed

Lost in Space

robot that made "Danger, Will Robinson" a catchphrase of the 1960s, died Dec. 9 at an assisted-living facility in Torrance, Calif., of congestive heart failure, his daughter, Pat Aoki, said Wednesday.

The Lost in Space robot had no name, though aficionados refer to him by the model designation B9 that was visible in an episode. By looks and even personality, B9's ancestor was Robby, a robot that Mr. Kinoshita helped create for the 1956 MGM sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet. Mr. Kinoshita was a designing draftsman at the studio when Robby was being developed. - L.A. Times

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