Farmers make robots

Robo Lao wu (Photo: tribuneindia.com)

A month ago, farmer Wu Yulu sold his "son" for 30,000 yuan - about $ 3,750. Wu Laowu (the fifth son of the Wu family) was actually a robot that Wu had crafted himself 10 years ago.

"I could not sleep for several days after selling this child, but there was no other way. I had to pay my debts," said Wu, a 44-year-old resident of Mawu village in eastern Beijing. .

On the family's TV screen, he played back a video of Wu Lao wu serving tea and lighting cigarettes.

For the past 26 years, Wu Yulu has built 25 robots , and "they are all like my son."

Wu loved mechanics and machines from childhood."Sometimes when someone comes over, I think about the walking mechanism," recalls Wu.

Unfortunately, he did not continue to have the passion to follow the academic path. The son of the family

Wu and his last robot.
(Photo of Xinhua News Agency, VNE)

With five children, Wu's parents could not let him continue to school after he graduated from primary school in the mid-1970s. However, lack of formal education did not prevent Wu from copying something. he called "extraordinary movement of man".

"At that time, I didn't even know the concept of 'robot'. But in my free time after farming, I still tried to gather everything that could be used for these walking objects."

Wu's materials are tires, metal, nails and screws collected from landfills, or sometimes from farm tools.

"Until now, I still don't know the laws of physics, but I know that electricity can run motors and switch between robot arms and legs through wires," Wu said. After the first robot failed, in 1982, the robot first moved.

T. An