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LEGO George the Giant Robot

I present to you…

LEGO George the Giant Robot!

He moves, he dances, he can grab things… What CAN’T HE DO!?

This latest creation from burf2000 stands 5’7″ tall, and is a fully functional 5 foot 7″ robot.

He is controlled via a PlayStation 2 controller, he can move about, rotate his upper body, move his arms / shoulders and grab on to items. His head also rotates, moves up and down and if you get too close, his eyes will rotate.

Video of LEGO George:

I asked burf2000 some questions about his robot:

What inspired you to build this robot?

“I have always loved robotics and so Lego for me was a medium to build it in, I built another large robot last year but was not so successful. That one was based off T1 from Terminator 3. I wanted to keep things simple on this one due to size. It weights around 20KG. I also loved the Short-circuit films (johnny 5).”

How long did it take to make?

“This one took around 3 months of the odd evenings and days, We just had a baby (my wife) so getting time has been quite hard. However my wife is very supportive and knew I needed to build this for a show. (http://www.greatwesternlegoshow.com/).”

What are your future plans with the robot?

“Glad you asked this, currently I am improving certain parts of this which I am not happy with like shoulder joints, main bearing and turning. Once they are done, I am going to build a second robot to keep him company. Its going to be another large one, using more NXT’s and hopefully will go round on his own. My aim is to get a whole display of large robots moving around and interacting with each other.”

I thank you, burf2000, for submitting LEGO George. We can’t wait to see his successor!

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