Portugese product designer Marco Fernandes built miniature toy robots out of recycled electrical components for his R³bot (pronounced "are-cube-bots").series.
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Each one has two working LED eyes wired up to a battery, along with several points of articulation.
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They range between 3.5-inches to 7.5-inches tall and come with displays made from old jars, lamps, boxes and hard drives.
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"Each one is unique and built in a very fluid process without any draft whatsoever or character study. I like to think that they assemble themselves. The pieces come together fitting themselves, creating bodies, skeletons that results in a single unique character, a R³bot."
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Each of this robots cost between 450 Euros to 500 Euros.
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Each one has two working LED eyes wired up to a battery, along with several points of articulation.
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They range between 3.5-inches to 7.5-inches tall and come with displays made from old jars, lamps, boxes and hard drives.
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"Each one is unique and built in a very fluid process without any draft whatsoever or character study. I like to think that they assemble themselves. The pieces come together fitting themselves, creating bodies, skeletons that results in a single unique character, a R³bot."
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Each of this robots cost between 450 Euros to 500 Euros.
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