Adam Savage’s crew has crafted a Grogu that might just be more sophisticated than the screen-used original. This bespoke animatronic packs a frankly ridiculous 24 servos—16 of which are squeezed into the head alone—all designed to condense the collective effort of a five-person puppetry team into a single controller. Joining engineer Matthew Winchell and puppeteer Michael Schupbach, this deep dive explores the beautiful, bordering-on-manic obsession required to make a hunk of hardware feel truly alive.
