Ben Skora is an American inventor residing in Palos Hills, Illinois who specializes in robotics and electro-gadget automation in homes. He often works with spare parts obtained from junk yards or discarded by others. He is best known for building Arok, a humanoid robot that was highly advanced at the time in the late 1970s. Arok is able to move in any direction at speeds up to 3 mph, lift 125 pounds and can bend 45 degrees at the waist. It is able to perform routine household tasks such as serving drinks and taking out the trash.His home includes many of his creations including a drivable motorized easy chair, a soap dispenser that is a retractable hand that comes out of the wall on demand, dressers that slide away to reveal a hallway to another room and a ski slope from the roof.He has appeared in People, Cosmopolitan and Ripley's Believe it or Not and the Chris Smith film Home Movie.
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