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Last night on “The Late Late Show,” Craig Ferguson finally debuted his robot skeleton sidekick, the result of a back-and-forth on Twitter with robotics expert Grant Imahara of “Mythbusters.”ferguson-robot-sidekick2

“After joining ‘the Twitter’ in February, Ferguson nicknamed his followers on the social media platform ‘the Robot Skeleton Army’ and joked on ‘The Late Late Show’ that he needed a skeleton sidekick,” the network said in a news release. “In turn, Imahara, a former animatronics engineer and model maker known for his work on R2D2 and the Energizer Bunny, kicked off a campaign for the construction of a sidekick on March 1 with a tweet that read: ‘I hear you are looking for a robot sidekick. I think I can help… for a price: get me 100,000 followers. If you can.’” [UPI]

Dubbed Geoff Peterson, the robot makes a couple brief appearances in last night’s terrific cold open (see first video below), before getting its first real test drive during the monologue (second video). And it’s an outstanding monologue: most of the jokes are about hobos or deadly robots. Those are two of my favorite things to make fun of, because neither of them are human.