Do I have to introduce Bender? I don't think so, but nevertheless I feel the duty so mention Bender here in the category Tin-Robot. He is a soul-robot and got some similarity with Robbi. That is in particular that he can do things with his mechanical gear, that people can't. That he is always supportive to humans, and that he got thousand of things inside his body. In that context I figured out, that tin-robots are to 99% male.
A classic children TV-Show, that was quite popular in Germany and at least for me introduced the Tin-Robot. Most remarkably is the robot "Robbi", that really got a rough-warm personalty of its own. The funky detail is the distorted "vocoder-like" speech from the robot and - maybe far ahead of its time - that Robbie makes click after finishing a speech or action, as if he had a pulse generator inside triggering control commands, using speech "click" like indicator.
Tin-Robot "Robbi" with his unique rough character of its own.
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