Found Art Robot Sculptures by Andrea Petrachi

I have to admit I lack the enough creativity to assemble a splendid robot model with a pile of recycled electronic parts. Perhaps it’s the soul of found art.

Undoubtedly Andrea Petrachi, an artist from Italy has the powerful skill for turning those junked electronic parts into some incredible robot sculptures. When these found art robots stand before you, it’s hard to image that many of parts in these robots were thrown into garbage can by you.

Check out these incredible robot sculptures after the break. Could you find any familiar parts which you’ve seen.

By the way, don’t miss these and those ultra cool robots.

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Simple Armored Personnel Unit From Japan Instead of Zion

Have you remembered those impressive APUs (Armored Personnel Units) in Matrix Revolutions? Now a simple prototype of APU appeared in the street of Japan.

Skeletonics, a small team of students in Japan designed and created the incredible mechanical skeleton that very easily lets us remind of the Armored Personnel Unit in Matrix Revolutions. The wearable mechanical skeleton is called Skeletonics: a hybrid of Skeleton and Mechanics. Based on human motion, they took 6 months to complete the powerful suit that can extend the movement of the human’s arms and legs, and unlike traditional exoskeleton robots, the suit doesn’t need any motor. The suit is made from aluminum panels and pipes.

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Limited Edition Bad Robot Collectible Figure

As we know, Bad Robot Productions produced many popular films and TV series like Star Trek, Lost, the upcoming Super 8, and etc. If you’re a faithful follower of the red robot, you might like to check the limited edition Bad Robot collectible figure.

This is our familiar red robot, the iconic mascot of J. J. Abrams’ co-named production company. The collectible toy figure measuring 10-inch tall is made of solid polystone, and painted by hand. As we can see from the images, the whole Bad Robot features exquisite detail, you even can those little rivets lined on the edges of the robot. Apart from that, the Bad Robot figure completes with an extra “Slusho” Drink piece.

The Bad Robot collectible figure is limited of 1000 units. At present, there are 100 units on ThinkGeek. Each one is priced at $89.99 USD. if you’re interested, jump to ThinkGeek for more details.

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