YouTuber builds a real-life, plucky side-kick robot for a Hollywood movie, here’s how

May 8 2025 by Yanko Design

 

The first glimpse of Newt reminded me of Wall-E, but this guy is different. Cuteness aside, the trash-collecting robot was a computer-generated character for the Pixar movie; Newt, on the other hand, is a companion robot built on demand from scratch. It is created and built by YouTuber Davis Dewitt of Backhaul Studios for the upcoming family-friendly, sci-fi movie The Lightning Code.

Slated to be theatrically released on May 9, 2025, the film revolves around a teenage inventor who has...

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