Chinese farmer and robot inventor cranks into gear
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Chinese farmer and robot inventor cranks into gear
Wu Yulu has burned down his house, sprayed himself with battery acid, driven his wife to contemplate divorce and openly admits he loves a few contraptions made from scrap metal more than his own children. But the self-educated farmer is happy, because the robots he has dedicated his life to creating are finally winning him enough fame and cash to put plowing aside forever. The unlikely inventor is pulled around the village where he was born by a walking, talking, life-size model which he calls his thirty-second son. His earlier efforts were more humble, the first just a simple walking contraption made of wire and cogs which took its first steps in 1986.
