Farmer Builds Robot Army

46-year-old Wu Yulu has only a basic school education but has managed to build himself 26 robots from scrap materials over the past 30 years. At first his creations were simple and could barely shuffle along by themselves. The robots got more complex as time passed, and eventually he built ones capable of climbing walls, serving water, lighting cigarettes, playing musical instruments and writing calligraphy. "When I was 11, one day I was sitting on the doorstep, and while watching villagers passing by I suddenly came up with the idea of building a machine that walks like a man," he told the Beijing Times.

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Woo woo

[leighfwarren901]

Paul Merton met this guy earlier this year http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LIThTB8Ww

NO university

[unity100]

modern scholastic education is more bent on making the student a clerk than provoking creativity.

throughout history, youll find that a pathetically small percentage of great inventors have been through scholastic education.

this person should be given a lab, and a few good technical assistants. just like 19th century inventors had.