One Christmas we were given a plastic robot-like thing. It was called "Robby the Robot" and if you turned a crank the action was sent through at attached cable and the thing would "walk" and swing its arms. But the coolest thing of all (in the middle 1950s) was that if you pushed a button several times it would TALK! It would say, "I am Robby the Robot mechanical man. If I can't do it nobody can" or something like that.

AND, you can find anything on the Internet! Here it is!

(My memory ain't too bad yet.)