Self-taught sculptor and playwright, born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, who left school at 14, worked in a coal mine and later at various manual jobs. He shared an exhibition in 1956 at the New Vision Centre Gallery with the painter Ralph Rumney, who was having his first London show. By then Robins had exhibited at Gallery One in 1954, in Soho Group exhibitions in 1955 and 1956 and also at the Obelisk and AIA Galleries. Robins was notable for his static and motorised kinetics made from several materials, also pendulums in wood, metal and elastic. These were all included in a solo exhibition in 1966 at the Grosvenor Gallery, where he had shown from 1965. By the time of that 1966 exhibition Robins had also displayed motorised works at Jaeger in Regent Street, some chosen by the Central Office of Information for a British Week in Milan and at industrial design exhibitions in Prague, Bratislava and Budapest.