Real Life Wall-e

Mike Senna, a computer programmer from Orange County, California, has spent the last two and a half years building a real-life Wall-E robot, from scratch...

Wall-e wasn't Mike's first robot either, back in 2003 he had created his own R2-D2 which is pretty well known within the geek community. I think that robotics is not just about functionality, but also presentation. It's the invisible line between magic and technology, that helps bring these characters to life.