"Tobor" is robot spelled backwards.  Clever, no?  No, I didn't think so.

Tobor is probably one of the most forgettable robots ever to have graced the silver screen.  Supposedly built to replace astronauts in hazardous space missions, Tobor really existed for A Boy and his Robot plotlines in between shenanigans involving communist spies trying to steal him.

None of this would have made Tobor worthy of inclusion here, except for the publicity shots for the film Tobor the Great (1954), which show Tobor being followed around by a little toy windup robot.  Was this supposed to be some sort of cybernetic Sydney Greenstreet/Peter Lorre relationship?  Thankfully, the world will never know.

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