And you thought Roombas were entertaining.

Redditor amaurer3210 dazzled the DIY community by turning a $50 plastic toy into the cutest Waste Allocation Load Lifter to scoot around on a hardwood floor.

“My wife and I love WALL-E,” he writes in a caption in his photo gallery, “so she got me this toy for Christmas many years ago. It is remote-controlled already, but its functions are very limited.”

His plan to give the toy an upgrade?

“… turn it into a telepresence rover that I can use to roam around the office or participate in meetings from my house.”

With this new directive in place, amaurer3210 got to work, replacing the stock system inside the robot’s frame because “it only has a single motor, and can only move straight forward or reverse-and-turn.”

Next to hit the scrap pile were the gearboxes, some fasteners, lenses on the eyes, and the accompanying speaker system—which cleared up enough space for amaurer3210 to order a few enhancements that would make Xzibit proud.

He added a new 3D-printed transmission:

Gear kit:

Speaker system (after all, his name is WALL-É, and he came to get it):

An HD webcam installed behind the lens of one of WALL-E’s eyes:

And the centerpiece to amaurer3210’s entire redesign: the Raspberry Pi computer that keeps the newly agile, video conference-capable robot running smoothly:

While the upgrades may seem extensive, amaurer3210 notes that the 5″ LCD screen the robot holds up is the most expensive single item purchased for the redesign, coming in at $57.

And if you’re wondering if spending that much money on WALL-E’s mechanical makeover is worth it, well, amaurer3210’s caption should suffice as an answer:

“OMG LOOK HOW HE HOLDS IT WITH HIS LITTLE HANDS!”

‘Nuff said.

But after all that laborious engineering, supergluing, and programming to enable the robot to send and receive real-time video and audio, amaurer3210 had to put his plucky automaton to the test.

When the moment of truth arrived, amaurer3210’s DIY WALL-E was almost as impressive as his fictional counterpart:

The only thing left for amaurer3210 to do was quote one of his favorite lines from the film: “Ta-da!”

Check out amaurer3210’s original post in the DIY community to see his full, step-by-step photo gallery, including a full breakdown of the hardware and software needed to recreate this project, a shopping list of parts, and his advice to an aspiring bot-builder (who just might replicate the idea using a KFC bucket on wheels).