Mr. Wu’s Scrap Robots

In a small farming village just outside Beijing, far from the bright lights of university labs and untouched by their multi-million dollar research grants, Wu Yulu sits in his yard building robots out of scrap. He’s been doing it, obsessively, since 1986. Dissatisfied with his teachers as a child, Mr. Wu decided to stop attending school before he had learned to read or write properly. But that didn’t stop him building his first robot out of sewing machine parts, before he even knew what a robot was! He was driven simply to make machines that walked like people.