Robby the Robot robot designed to care for children. In "Tom Swift on The Phantom Satellite" (1956), it is also the name given to a small four-foot robot designed by Tom Swift Jr., the boy inventor in the "Tom Swift Jr." science fiction novel series by Victor Appleton II. Robby the Robot originated as a character in the 1956 MGM science fiction film "Forbidden Planet". The story centers on a crew of space explorers from Earth who land their starship, the C57-D, on the planet Altair IV, ruled by the mysterious Dr. Morbius. Robby is a mechanical servant that Morbius has designed, built,
History of the Forbidden City Forbidden City as retail space. In 2005, IBM Corporation and the Palace Museum announced a joint project to build a World Wide Web-based virtual model of the Forbidden City and associated sites in Beijing. The online cultural heritage project, titled "The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time", will be presented in both English and Chinese, and provide interactive, three-dimensional, representations of Forbidden City structures and cultural artifacts. The virtual Forbidden City will consist of some 800 buildings, and will launch sometime during 2008. History of the Forbidden City The history of the Forbidden City begins in the 15th century when