Adam Savage’s team has built a Grogu that might be more complex than the original. The custom animatronic packs a frankly absurd 24 servos—16 of them in the head alone—all to distill the performance of a five-person puppet team into a single controller. This deep dive with engineer Matthew Winchell and puppeteer Michael Schupbach shows the beautiful obsession required to bring a character to life.
