Baby Yoda Robot Built to Cheer Up Sick Kids
Former member of the MythBusters team, Grant Imahara, built his own life-like Baby Yoda animatronic and he plans to use it for a very good cause. Cheering up sick kids who are in the hospital.
Imahara is currently working as a consultant for Disney Research. He actually helped build the spiderman animatronic who will fly over the Marvel campus at Disney’s California Adventure.
When he saw Baby Yoda on the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, Imahara thought he was too cute not to replicate.
Pleased to present my newest creation: a fully animatronic Baby Yoda. It’s been three months of hard work and countless…
Posted by Grant Imahara on Friday, March 6, 2020
“After the third episode of The Mandalorian, I knew I had to make my own Baby Yoda. I was an animatronics engineer in the ILM model shop before MythBusters, and worked on the Star Wars prequels as well as the Energizer Bunny, so I had the required skill set. And it could be a character I could bring to children’s hospitals for charity work, which is something I’ve been committed to doing” (cnet.com/Burton)
Imahara’s Baby Yoda was created with 3D printing and he programmed the animation himself. “Once I got the animation sequence to a point where I could loop sleepy/grumpy/happy, I loaded that into the servo controller so that it would loop continuously. I applied the final skin and full costume” (cnet.com).
He plans to begin visiting hospitals mid-April. His original plan is to set up visits at Southern California hospitals.
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