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Things from Movies That Actually Exist Now
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 03 December 2011, 00:37 IST
A Real, Responsive 'Wall-E' Robot
If Wall-E was a real robot, I would adopt it so fast it would make him giddy! And my lord, what a friend he would be! Wall-E is entirely genuine and is working for the San Mateo County Bomb Squad. In 2005, folks at Pixar were on the look for a model robot they could use to augment Wall-E on the big screen. The San Mateo Sheriff's Office had just the thing: the Mini-Andros, a 12-year-old robot that was in fact scheduled for the scrap heap. Pixar used the Mini-Andros, studying its movements and recreating them in 2008's masterpiece, 'Wall-E.'
