robots to replace humans working in factories (1935) Annihilants, robot soldiers belonging to Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon film series (1936) Volkites, robotic henchmen of the Atlantean tyrant Unga Khan in Undersea Kingdom (1936) Iron Man, An 8 foot tall robot created by Dr. Alex Zorka in The Phantom Creeps (1939) Steel "Killer" Robot in director William Witney's early 1940s film serial of 15 episodes Mysterious Doctor Satan (a.k.a. Doctor Satan's Robot) (1940, re-released in full-length 1966) The Mechanical Monsters in the Superman short of the same name (1941) The Monster and the Ape Features the "Metalagon Man" a stolen robot (1945) 1950s Gort, the robot in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (loosely based on Gnut, the robot protagonist of "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, the original short story upon which the movie is based) Mark 1 in Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) Ro-Man, a robot bent on destroying earth, in the movie Robot Monster (1952) The Twonky (1953) Nyah's robot, Chani, in the British film Devil Girl from Mars (1954) Tobor, a robot created to replace astronauts in space in the film Tobor the Great (1954) Venusian robots invading Earth in Target Earth (1954) Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet (1956) and The Invisible Boy (1957) Kronos (1957) Moguera, a large, mole-like robot in The Mysterians (1957) and several subsequent Japanese films Colossus in The Colossus of New York (1958) The Human Robot in The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958) 1960s Omega in First Spaceship on Venus (1960) Neptune Men, robotic aliens in Invasion of the Neptune Men, starring a young Sonny Chiba (1961) Robot John in Planet of Storms (1962), Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1965) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) The Humanoids (or "Clickers") in The Creation of the Humanoids (1962) Talos in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Alien robots invade Earth in The Earth Dies Screaming. (1964) Torg in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) Frank Saunders (a.k.a. "Frankenstein"), an android version of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965) Sexbots or Fembots, including Robot # 11 (Diane) in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966), both starring Vincent Price Cyborg Garth A7 in Cyborg 2087 (1966) Robot Operator in The Terrornauts (1967) Mechani-Kong in King Kong Escapes (1967) Robot