Around April 1965, Irwin Allen hired Kinoshita as the art director for the "Lost in Space" series. Of the many tasks to befall Kinoshita, two of them were to come up with a robot (which he nicknamed "Blinky") and to redesign the pilot film's "Gemini XII" space ship into what would become the "Jupiter 2". This robot never had a real name—only the model number "B9." In the show he was referred to as "the robot" or called by the generic name, "Robot." He was brought to life by the combination of actor Bob May and voice actor Dick Tufeld.