Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamed of building his own one day.
Ma has realized his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-sized robot from scratch on the balcony of his home.
The fruit of his 18-month labour is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1.
The robot is modeled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps.
It responds to a set of programmed verbal commands spoken into a microphone.
Ma says he does not know of anyone el
