Power up that imagination! Design duo transform everyday waste into cool robots

Fahmy working a new 'walking drone' creation in the Imaginary Bot Figures Creation Malaysia workshop/lab in Petaling Jaya. The yellow bot (in front) is called Kabuto, a nod to the Japanese rhino beetle. Photo: The Star/Samuel Ong

The art of making toys from recycled objects – simply put, that’s what Mohd Fahmy Mohd Hashim and Muhammad Hafiz Basri have honed into a skill that is pretty impressive.

The former schoolmates from Batu Pahat, Johor, began this interesting hobby a couple of years ago when they chanced upon the work of an army combat veteran named Rupert Valero on the Internet.