Every R3BOT begins in the dust. We spend our weekends in forgotten workshops, estate basements, and rural scrap yards, hunting for the "bones" of our next creation. We look for materials that carry the weight of history—heavy brass, textured Bakelite, and industrial steel. If it doesn't have a soul, it doesn't make it to the bench.

True restoration requires a clean slate. We carefully dismantle every vintage find, cleaning away decades of grime while preserving the "honest patina"—the scratches and wear that prove an object was used and loved. This phase is a mechanical autopsy; we learn how the object was made so we can honor its original engineering in its new form.

This is where the transformation happens. At the workbench, there are no assembly lines or instruction manuals. Each R3BOT is a puzzle of physics and aesthetics. We marry components that were never meant to meet—a 1950s radio tube becomes a glowing heart; a typewriter key becomes a steady eye. We use mechanical fasteners and cold-joinery to ensure that each artifact is as structurally sound as the machines it was born from.