What really impressed me was his ability to stay in perfect synchronization with the prerecorded sound effects.

His performance is basically what people in the 50s thought the future would look like and that makes me so happy lol 😂 love the whole retro vibe of his act

The stand user could be anyone! The stand user:

Some of the children in the audience must have been absolutely terrified XD

2007 Humans: Look I imitate a robot perfectly! 2018 Robots: Look I can imitate a human perfectly!

Hey are you having a good time in the comment section? *GOOOOOOOOOD!*

I really enjoyed this 14 years later.

How can something be so incredible yet so uncanny at the same time?!

It might seem like fun and games now but in 20 more years this will be seen as the equivalent to blackface and condemned by androids everywhere. Just you wait.

This magician was a hardcore gamer back in the day. Every piece of his music and sound effects came from a mix of popular games from N64 Era, and mashed together, with Ferris Buellers day off movie, from the same era being the main background. Command and Conquer games and Red Alert being the main sound effects/music mash.

This must be a dream come true for kids of the 50s! I see this older man in the audience was completely hooked! ❤

I would love to see this live. Thanks UKposts for recommending this.

I've gotta say this is really unique. Most magicians are all about the glitter and flashes of light and mirrors. This guy picked a light-hearted, original theme, does it WELL, and it sure looks like a packed house to me. New territory for the business is always welcome.

4:41 he is like: "wait a second, thats not a human?"

There have been many performers for quite a long time with this bit and honestly it's one I just never could get behind.

Love this. What a performance.

I fear no man... But that thing *it scares me*

Can’t believe that such an amazing performance was 13 years back

This feels like I’m watching the pitch for the disney live action inspector gadget

Mike Michaels aka robot man.. Creator, builder, performer, Mike Michaels continues his world-wide success and acclaim as he astounds audiences with the world’s only Mechanical Magician. In a performance which combines his robotic movements, state of the art mechanical electronics, and a staggering bombardment of cartoon sound effects, he creates the unusual imagery of a Living Robotic Magician. Mike spent over 5000 hours of research and development to update his original, award-winning act, Mike’s body blows up revealing his moving robotic skeleton, creating the world’s most original display of special effects and magic, live on stage. This specialty act is valued at a quarter of a million dollars.

LOVE to watch Mike Michaels perform! His shows are always so different and "off the beaten path", creative and amusing. Keep it up kid, I love you!!!

I remember seeing this on tv in the 90’s as a kid and it completely freaked me out. Lol

I refuse to believe this is from 2007. This is _America's Got Talent_ -level stuff here.

Fantastic show ! And its a magic show with A whole lot of neat tricks !

This is so weird and intriguing at the same time. I can tell a lot of work/money went into this, I hope he's doing well today

What's so impressiven about it? It's nothing compared Mark Zuccerberg.

Old sound effects and the looks of magician makes me feel terified like a kid 30years ago very classic but its good ! Nice magic performance

I can't believe they made a whole animatronic just for this skit, It's honestly incredible how far people will go to make a good comedy.

I'm 20 years old and with lots of crazy experiences and I've never in my life came across something like this. Absolutely incredible!

The People clapping aren't sure why they're clapping. They certainly aren't laughing. A lot of them seem upset.

Took me a while to realize that it is actually a human acting as a robot. Wow!

The way he leave while audience still clapping..true professionalismmm

Is it just me, or did he travel forward in time to star in Shazam??

2:46 it gave me a little bit of fear and worry the most bizarre thing my god

This was and is a great act. A pioneer for his time ❤️ love that

This never gets old

Okay I've got to that point in UKposts where I need to go to bed...

This magic show belongs to the '90s. one of the shows I enjoyed very much as a child

I remember seeing it as a kid when it aired on TV in the evening and being totally scared. 😅

look at the old man, he feels like finally he can see something that he always imagine when he was child...

"Boi oi oi oi oi ing." Cuts to cleavage.

How many of us could resonate with this sort of routine daily life? This guy is brilliant, He has put in lots of work.

4:25 that’s the creepiest thing I’ve seen in a very long time

Unbelievable! Great job for the time... It holds even today.

How can we use every stock sound in existance in a skit? I'VE GOT IT

The audience looked seriously concerned at ome point😂😂😂

I remember seeing this on TV as a kid. It effed me up! Lol

It has been 13 years on the video and now 13 beautiful scenes

The 90’s were weird, man...

It's...kind of awkward and weird...but it's still a good robot act.

This guy should have gone on _America's Got Talent_ or the version of that show in whatever country he's from.

This is the best performance i ever seen, i swear

Who's watching for 2027? what what? 3 decades ago?

*Why is UKposts recommending a video uploaded in 2007?*

this is by far his best performance of the act

WOW! This guy is phenomenal!

His tricks are so perfectly done and subtle that they don't come across well on this blurry video. It'd be 100% better live I'm guessing. This guys tricks and props with Mr Zeds movements and humor would be a show stopper.

Hold on...that hair...that shoulder... *IS THIS A JOJO REFERENCE!?!*

Only a talented person can catch the "childish" views of adults

I would like to see a video of this guy breaking the news to his parents about wanting to go into the business of "Robot Magician/Comedian": "Dad, I don't want to follow your steps into Law Enforcement; my calling is a Robot Magician/Comedian". *Dad speechless*

He destroyed the magic of the number at the end. An artist must never loose the character, at least not in costume.

Rich people entertainment isn't what it used to be...

Magnifico lo haze perfecto y la musica de fondo lo acaba de completar sobresaliente en todo sentido

That old man LOVED every second of that!

I've seen that as a kid in tv. Geez, this performance must be over 20 years old. It's still really great.

4:17 his hand forgot to disappear off the curtain

I love how many of these sounds I'm noticing are in different games and shows. SpongeBob, fallout shelter, ratchet and clank deadlocked, call of duty. Obviously they are just stock but it's funny I'm noticing it now.

I would love to see this performance in person.

*human.exe has stopped working.*

I came here to be impressed, not to feel weird

凄く惹きつけられる、退廃的な雰囲気とコミカルさが素晴らしい、拍手

What a perfomanced!!🔥🔥🔥

This, but with some kind of point and less royalty free stock sounds

This is great! Now that I think of it it’s actually also a great magic routine!

I fucking love the addition of the sign that says”robot”clapping for him after every trick

i legit had a hard time figuring out if that was a real robot or not lol

It took me 10 years to find this video.

Yep. Nothin' more relateable than a robot that smokes cigarettes.

This is the best performance I've ever seen

14 years ago and there's a robot doing magic.

I wished people would do this stuff again. Seems lit AF

This was unsettling in a strange way, but also pretty entertaining to me.

First time I’ve ever seen this guy, that was soooooo sick. He should have went on America’s Got Talent and he should be a feature act in Vegas. That was just fantastic.

Es sorprendente, su sincronización es perfecta, espectacular!!

Detroit: Become ROBOT

i can't believe how amazing this was in more than 13 years ago(people there didn't know what to do because tgis act is just too amazing for them to understand at that time)

Только талантливый человек может поймать на себе "детские" взгляды взрослых людей

たびたびこの動画見るけどマジですごいよな 何回見ても「すげぇ」って言葉しか浮かばない

Just amazing hope that we can see this guy on Britain's got talent next time just 100% great

this was the most amazing human robot performance ever

Mike Michaels is so entertaining , too bad he's not well known here in the US.

You really don't get magic that feels like this today

This is so 90's...

this was painful to watch...

The human robot is pretty awesome.😊 Even better than the ones i grew up with.😊

I want to see this guy do a skit with Mr Zed lol, two best robot acts on stage I've seen to be honest. What impressed me was how in sync he was with the sound effects and that part where he took off his face, like what lol. The part where he gets stripped was obviously a robotic animatronic but how he got rid of it so fast is another story lol

For a minute I thought it was an actual robot.

Was impressed with performance when I was a kid and still impressed with his performance years later.

My mechanophobia goes high, when that burnt robot appears.

🤣.. hey it's my grandson!...I always knew he would get on television someday🥳.