1. Grant Masaru Imahara was an American electrical engineer, roboticist and television host.
32 Facts About Grant Imahara
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Grant Imahara was best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, on which he designed, built and operated numerous robots and machines to test myths over the course of the show.
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Grant Imahara's work has been featured in films from franchises such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, and Terminator.
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In 2005, Grant Imahara joined the cast of Mythbusters as a member of the Build Team, appearing in over 200 episodes of the series until his departure in 2014.
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Grant Imahara starred in the 2016 Netflix series White Rabbit Project alongside his MythBusters co-stars Kari Byron and Tory Belleci.
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Grant Imahara died on July 13,2020, at the age of 49, after suffering a ruptured intracranial aneurysm.
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Grant Imahara was born on October 23,1970, to a Japanese-American family in Los Angeles, California.
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Grant Imahara graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering.
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Grant Imahara was a live-action role-playing gamer, as revealed on White Rabbit Project.
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Grant Imahara has been credited in many feature films as a model maker.
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Grant Imahara joined MythBusters on the invitation of friend and occasional employer Jamie Hyneman and former ILM colleague Linda Wolkovitch, who was an associate producer of MythBusters.
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Grant Imahara joined as the third member of the Build Team alongside Kari Byron and Tory Belleci, replacing former MythBusters welder Scottie Chapman.
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Grant Imahara often built robots that were needed for the show and specialized in operating computers and electronics for testing the myths.
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Grant Imahara reunited with Byron and Belleci for the 2016 White Rabbit Project, a Netflix Original Series, in which the team investigated topics such as jailbreaks, superpower technology, heists, and bizarre World War II weapons, evaluated against a defined set of criteria and explored through experiments, builds, and tests.
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Grant Imahara made a cameo appearance on Syfy's Eureka and the web series The Guild.
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In 2012, Grant Imahara's likeness was used in the popular webcomic America Jr, in which he appeared as himself as a celebrity judge for a competition to select the country's Surgeon General.
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In 2012, Grant Imahara had a cameo role on the finale of Eureka, in the episode titled "Just Another Day", as a robotics scientist operating EMO.
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Grant Imahara portrayed Hikaru Sulu in all 11 episodes of the web series Star Trek Continues.
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Grant Imahara played Lieutenant Masaru in the 2015 movie Star Trek: Renegades.
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Grant Imahara was a guest on TWiT's Triangulation on September 25,2013.
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Grant Imahara partnered with Mouser Electronics to kick off their "Empowering Innovation Together" campaign, where he hosts several webisodes.
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In 2014, Grant Imahara appeared in a series of videos showing the behind-the-scenes process of how several McDonald's foods are made.
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Grant Imahara took an active part in advising Team USA in a giant-robot battle between American company MegaBots and Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry.
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Grant Imahara hosted the second season of the web series The Home of the Future, produced by The Verge in partnership with Curbed.
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On October 18,2017, Grant Imahara tweeted that he had been consulting for Walt Disney Imagineering for six months, for a "top secret" project.
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In March 2020, while Grant Imahara was working as a consultant for Disney Research and a mechanical designer at Spectral Moon, he built a fully animatronic model of Baby Yoda with the intention of touring children's hospitals with the lifelike robot to cheer up sick children.
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Grant Imahara spent three months on the personal project doing the mechanical design, programming and 3D printing and completed it four months prior to his death.
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Grant Imahara was engaged to his long-time girlfriend, costume designer and actress Jennifer Newman since 2016.
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Grant Imahara mentored the robotics team at Richmond High School in California while working for Lucasfilm's VFX.
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Grant Imahara died on July 13,2020, at the age of 49, after suffering a ruptured, previously undiagnosed intracranial aneurysm.
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Grant Imahara Joe is a tinkerer who helps the main characters build mechanical automaton motorbikes to achieve their goals.
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Mercer tweeted that Grant Imahara was "one of the most lovely people I have ever known".