Robert was not the first toy robot of the post-WWII era. That honor, according to Collectors Weekly, goes to Lilliput, a Japanese robot made of tin. After the war, tin lithograph toys were a ...

Kevin Hardy of Watson has collected 31 antique Japanese tin toy robots so far. He's found most of them on auction sites, and most of them were still packed in their original boxes. But there's ...

with most coming from the store rooms of failing toy shops, or from the broken stock departments of factories. The stash of tin plate robots, bicycle-riding ducks and vintage boats were made ...

Most of his robots are animated. Some light up, others can move across the floor and one raises and shoots a Flash Gordon-like laser gun. Technically, they're tin toy robots, all manufactured in ...