The First, The Original, The Only Voodoo Robot, A Haint’s Nemesis

Voodoo Robot was created by Jimmy Toade in late 1980s as the Mascot of the Voodoo Rocket art movement he co-founded with Kevin Bradley.

Made from 942 individual pieces of random objects he found on the streets of Ft Sanders, Knoxville, TN. It contains machine parts, watches, windup toys, electrical gadjets, action figures, educational dinosaurs, 8088 processor, with most items still not identified by anyone.

Jimmy invited three scientists from the Oak Ridge National Lab to examined it. They determined that it has several one-of-a-kind parts, possibly from U.S. government experiments. Several have the U.S.A.E.C marking from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commision, 1946-1975.

It was painted in 1989 with a 1957 copyright version of Master-Mixed Siliconized Sears-Roebuck house paint, found in the basement of a home in Oak Ridge, TN. The chip label read “3438 – Uranium Green”.

The robot was the lead of 17 art shows, when it was sold to the famous robot collection of Ray Rohr. It remained part of his collection until it was purchased back from his estate in 2012.