Parallels in other's fiction to that of JKR.

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> Walabio:
> 	The first Robotic Stories of Professor Isaac Asimov predate Forbidden Planet by more than a decade.  1 of them even has a robotic character named Robby.  Robbie in the movie is an homage to Robbie.  He named the story Robbie.  The Good Doctor started writing Robbie on 1939-06-10.
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John:
Of course you are right the actual books by far predate Forbidden Planet and Lost In Space by quite some time, that I actually knew but expressed myself badly. What I think I actually meant to say but didn't was that Robbie as a benign robot with built in 'safety laws' predates the TV and Film appearences of Isaac Asimov's positronic robots, in such films as I Robot (I don't know if this is the first movie to actually feature Isaac Asimov's particular type of machines, but certainly BBC TV did a version of the story Liar in the early Seventies). The Will Smith film was, of course, far more recent than Forbiden Planet and indeed in that movie the positronic robots are in any case far from benign whilst under the control of the villainous 'female' master computer that can overide their safety circuits. Robbie, being fully independent, is in fact far safer for humans than the robots in that later movie.

Many Blessings.
John, (Oriondruid).