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Imahara is survived by his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Newman, who tweeted a heartbreaking post in the wake of Imahara's death. He can also be seen in the 2015 horror-comedy sequel Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! and once built a robot sidekick for Craig Ferguson featured on The Late Late Show. Masaru in the fan film Star Trek Renegades.

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Sulu in the web series Star Trek Continues and appeared as Lt. To further utilize his expertise, Imahara has also appeared on shows like Battlebots, Eureka, and the web series The Guild. There are several other places where you may have seen Imahara. In 2016, the trio teamed back up to host the Netflix series White Rabbit Project, a series that similarly used experiments and tests to investigate such topics as jailbreaks and superpower technology. Imahara would remain on the series for many years before departing in 2014 along with co-hosts Kari Byron and Tory Belleci. A brilliant roboticist, Imahara's work on MythBusters saw him creating robots necessary for the show's many experiments as well as operating various machines and electronics. Imahara is probably best known for his time on MythBusters, joining the Discovery series in its third season by replacing Scottie Chapman.

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With Star Wars, he was particularly involved with creating the updated R2-D2 robots to be featured in the movie trilogy. This includes The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Matrix sequels, and George Lucas's Star Wars prequels. Working with Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Imahara had worked on the visual effects for many major motion pictures. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at the University of Southern California before he was later hired on to work as an engineer for Lucasfilm's THX. 'Grant was a truly brilliant engineer, artist and performer, but also just such a generous, easygoing, and gentle PERSON. I've been part of two big families with Grant Imahara over the last 22 years,' Savage writes in the post. Meanwhile, Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage also addressed the news in a tweet posted to his Twitter account on Monday evening. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family,' a Discovery representative said in a statement. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. 'We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Imahara died suddenly on Monday following a brain aneurysm at the age of 49 years old. An electrical engineer and roboticist, Imahara had achieved worldwide fame on television as a MythBusters co-host for many years. Incredibly sad news is coming in today as it's now being reported that Grant Imahara has passed away.

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