Ben Skora
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Ben Skora is an American inventor residing in Palos Hills, Illinois who specializes in robotics and electro-gadget automation in homes. He often works with spare parts obtained from junk yards or discarded by others. He is best known for building Arok, a humanoid robot that was highly advanced at the time in the late 1970s. Arok is able to move in any direction at speeds up to 3 mph, lift 125 pounds and can bend 45 degrees at the waist. It is able to perform routine household tasks such as serving drinks and taking out the trash.[1]
His home includes many of his creations including a drivable motorized easy chair, a soap dispenser that is a retractable hand that comes out of the wall on demand, dressers that slide away to reveal a hallway to another room and a ski slope from the roof.
He has appeared in People, Cosmopolitan and Ripley's Believe it or Not and the Chris Smith film Home Movie.
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- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946950,00.html Time magazine article
