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Geeky Robot-Building Dads Are the Best
Who needs a dad who will teach you how to throw a curveball or play horsie when you have a dad like this? Geekdad, one of our very favorite resources for all things great, pointed us towards the interview with their hero of the week from Robot magazine. Nao Maru spends quality time with his kids by building robots. Kickass, award-winning robots. In fact, “In less that two years Maru and his two young sons went from complete
novices to winning the ROBO-ONE 10 championship against the best
humanoid robot builders Japan has to offer.” Now that sounds like bonding, and thank god they didn’t try to build a baby. Maru isn’t one of those parents who takes over and just lets the kids hold the welder for a second. In the interview, he says about building one cool custom robot, “We wanted it to have an original character, but with some similarity to traditional anime robots. More than anything, it had to be something that would excite and inspire all of us, especially the boys, otherwise it wouldn’t be worth doing.”
Excuse me, I think I have a nanoparticle in my eye… Yeah, I know, that wouldn’t account for the watering. It’s just the sweet geeky thing gets me right here, every time.


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