When you ask UNLV robotics professor Paul Oh how long his laboratory took to create, he can’t help but laugh.

We’re looking at the heavy-duty digits of a Hubo humanoid robot hanging in his UNLV engineering lab, and Paul Oh is trying to help me understand why they’re not as elegant as mine. Yet.

For the past 14 years, Paul Oh has been working with students at Drexel University to turn science fiction into reality.