Grant Imahara poses atop M5 for a Discovery Channel photo shoot in August 2007.
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Grant Imahara poses with the remote-controlled car he built to test whether a speeding vehicle can truly skip across a water's surface, as seen in The Cannonball Run.
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Do dogs splashing about in the water attract sharks? Grant Imahara put his robot-making skills to good use for Shark Week 2008.
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Grant Imahara's pre-MythBusters credits include working behind the scenes on The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
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Grant Imahara during a fall 2009 Discovery Channel photo shoot.
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An early photo of Grant Imahara, whose resume includes "R2-D2 operator" at Industrial Light & Magic.
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Grant Imahara is a former animatronics engineer and model maker for George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic.
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For "Surfing With Dynamite" it was Grant Imahara to the rescue when the MythBusters needed a robot that not only surfed but could stay afloat during an explosion.
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Grant Imahara with another of his remote-control creations.
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Grant Imahara's first MythBusters episode as a cast member was May 2005's "Hollywood on Trial".
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