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Grant Masaru Imahara (October 23, 1970 – July 13, 2020) [1] was an American electrical engineer, roboticist and television host. He was best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, on which he designed, built and operated numerous robots and machines to test myths over the course of the show.
According to the October 28, 2012, episode of MythBusters, he suffers from acrophobia. During the "Hollywood Hang" sequence, of the 2010 episode "Soda Cup Killer", Belleci fell off a roof, and despite being strapped into a safety harness system, landed in an open window frame below the drop point, and injured his leg, causing substantial bleeding.
From left, Grant Imahara, Adam Savage, Kari Byron, Jamie Hyneman and Tory Belleci starred on "MythBusters." (Photo: Everett Collection) (©Discovery Channel/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist best known for cohosting MythBusters, died on Monday, July 13. He was 49. Celebrity Deaths in 2020 Read article “We are heartbroken to hear ...
Tory Belleci is often considered by fellow MythBusters Kari Byron and Grant Imahara to be more of a daredevil and, as such, often performs the more dangerous stunts when testing a myth. [13] These have included: testing the " Red Flag to a Bull " myth; testing the myth that a human's tongue will instantly stick to a frozen pole, in the " Frozen ...
Grant Imahara, the engineer and roboticist who helped test some of the world’s most famous rumors on the iconic Discovery Channel series “Mythbusters,” has died. He was 49.A spokesperson for ...
Three such members, artist Kari Byron, builder Tory Belleci, and metal-worker Scottie Chapman, were organized as a second team of MythBusters during the second season, dubbed the "Build Team". After Chapman left the show during the third season, Grant Imahara, a colleague of Hyneman's, was hired to provide the team with his electrical and ...
MythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. There is no consistent system for organizing MythBusters episodes into seasons. The show did not follow a consistent calendar of on- and off-air periods for its first-aired episodes.