{"id":65,"date":"2006-10-11T19:42:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T23:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T14:44:32","slug":"a-little-robot-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"A little robot flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a little robot flashback<\/a> and a creative way to introduce a South Florida Science Museum<\/a> exhibit about robotics.<\/p>\n

Conversation between Robby the Robot,<\/em> the courtly and groundbreakingly human automaton from the 1956 movie <\/em>Forbidden Planet, and Robot B-9,<\/em> the barrel-chested mechanical Man Friday with the clear-plastic noggin from the 1960s television series <\/em>Lost in Space, overheard by Tailpipe last week in Boca Raton:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a little robot flashback and a creative way to introduce a South Florida Science Museum exhibit about robotics. Conversation between Robby the Robot, the courtly and groundbreakingly human automaton from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, and Robot B-9, the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-13","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3351,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3351","url_meta":{"origin":65,"position":0},"title":"Help us supply Florida classrooms with needed science materials","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrapped up an awesome first week of school with my high school freshman environmental science honors classes. 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