Robby The Robot befriends the boy who reassembles him from a heap of parts. Robby makes the boy invisible then they team up to prevent a super computer from controlling the Earth! Directed by Herman Hoffman. Screenplay by Cyril Hume based on a story by Edmund Cooper. The boy is Richard Eyer. With Philip Abbott and Diane Brewster. Robby was created for Forbidden Planet. In The Invisible Boy, Robby is found in a storeroom with notes indicating that a scientist brought him there from the future. Robby is shown in a photo emerging from the Forbidden Planet spacecraft at Chicago Spaceport in the year 2242! Click for other version of poster