Ben Skora is what you call a tinkerer. He spends his life taking things apart and trying to make something bigger and better. John Barbour takes a tour of his house of robotic inventions.
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Thank you for your inventions Ben Skora. Ben was decades ahead of his time on future inventions.
He was right about mind controlled automation too!
Ben Skora was decades ahead of his time on future inventions.
He was definitely ahead of his time! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for your post Real People and John Barbour.
I got to talk to Mr. Skora on the phone a few times. He autographed an old National Geographic World magazine for me. I have my own robot named Gizmo. He’s no where as complicated as Arok.
That’s so great!
Ben Skora recently passed away on October 13, 2018. Rest in peace my good friend…
Very sorry to hear about Mr. Skora passing away. Please accept my condolences.
I”m really sorry to hear about losing Ben too. I was lucky enough to spend some time with him on several occasions – we even did some TV work together. That man was a ball of fun energy well into his 80s…
This is what the “turntable,” as Ben called it, looked like when he first built it. Take a look at that TV in the background! What a classic.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EznEixnsrLuDBure6
That hair piece tho