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Guy spends two years building his own WALL-E robot
WALL-E was a great movie, and after seeing it, who wouldn’t want a shy little robot pet of their very own? That’s what one robot builder from California did, and two years later, he’s got his WALL-E.
Mike Senna, a California robotics enthusiast, was best known up until a little while ago for building a life-sized, working R2-D2. It started out as a hobby, then became something more when Mike began taking R2 to events for City of Hope, a pediatric cancer charity. After a while, it became apparent that it would be even more fun if he built a character with “more emotion,” and Senna began work on WALL-E.
As tough as building R2 must have been, building WALL-E was tougher. After all, someone’s already built an R2-D2, but until now WALL-E only existed in a computer. There were no schematics, no pre-existing parts, nothing. Senna had to watch the movie over and over again to get all the movements right, develop the robotic elements himself, and then put it all together. He spent at least 25 hours a week working on it (he also has a job), and estimates that it probably took anywhere between 3,200 and 3,800 hours to finish the project. Oh, and he paid for all of it himself.
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