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Grant Imahara
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American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Kickin' Bot
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Film & TV
Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA
Grant Masaru Imahara was an American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor. He is best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, on which he designed and built numerous robots and specialized in operating computers and electronics to test myths. Imahara began his career at Lucasfilm, where he worked in the THX division as an engineer and in the Industrial…
Known for
- MythBusters: There's Your Problem — Self2021
- White Rabbit Project — Himself - Host2016
- Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! — Lodge2015
- Caper2014
- Drunk History — Frank Inouye2013
- Sharkzilla — Himself2012
- The Guild — Grant Imahara2007
- Eureka — EMO Robot Scientist2006
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self2005
- MythBusters — Self - Host2003
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- Total plays
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
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- 11
Research areas
Most cited works
- Stickman: Towards a Human Scale Acrobatic Robot2018 · 11 cit
- orig-research2008 · 0 cit
- MythBusters: S11 - Painting With Explosives/Bifurcated Boat2012 · 0 cit
- ICCE 2008 keynotes: Awards Luncheon Keynote and Closing Luncheon Keynote2008 · 0 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,797x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,706x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II
· 1993 · cited 10,586x
- Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm
· 1996 · cited 10,498x
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Key facts
- Born
- Grant Masaru Imahara , ( 1970-10-23 ) October 23, 1970, Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Died
- July 13, 2020 (2020-07-13) (aged 49), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of Southern California ( BS )
- Occupations
- Electrical engineer roboticist television host
- Known for
- MythBusters BattleBots
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Encyclopedic overview
Grant Masaru Imahara (October 23, 1970 – July 13, 2020) was an American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host and actor. He 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.
Imahara began his career at Lucasfilm, where he worked in the THX division as an engineer and in the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) division in visual effects. His work has been featured in films from franchises such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, and Terminator. His first foray into television was on the robot combat series BattleBots, for which he designed and competed with his robot Deadblow and later returned as a judge. Imahara was also a chief model maker with ILM on such movie projects as Galaxy Quest. In 2005, 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. In 2010, he designed the animatronic "robot skeleton" Geoff Peterson to serve as a sidekick on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He starred in the 2016 Netflix series White Rabbit Project alongside his MythBusters co-stars Kari Byron and Tory Belleci.
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