“I have already created 23. I am now working on the number 24. It will be a robot that may have uses in agriculture,” he says.
He says it safe, confident. Enthusiasm is perceived in his voice. And not for less: his name is beginning to sound strongly inside and outside the borders of his country, Bolivia.
From his small workshop in a town in the municipality of Patacamaya, southeast of La Paz, Esteban gives life to his creations.
“My workshop is a simple room, although now I’ve been improving it, from there I investigate each component and I’m doing the circuits.” I put the cement floor in. I’m also a mason, among many other things, “he explains.
If I had had money I would have used new materials. But I did not have it, so I started looking for solutions
If there is something that defines Stephen are his eagerness to invent and build new things.
And that “innate talent”, as he defines it, to understand the “complicated language of technology” is taking him very far.
He has already participated in several television programs and starred in articles from the international press. And on his Facebook page accumulate praise and feedback from his thousands of followers.
In October, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) invited him to the global event that he held annually in Washington, USA, Demand Solutions to share his creations and enthusiasm with the rest of the world.
And the Bolivian Ministry of Education awarded him with a full scholarship of university studies “in the career that he chooses”. But Esteban says that he decided to give it up for the enjoyment of another student.
“In total I received five scholarships,” says Esteban. And, in the end, he chose to study Mechatronics Engineering at the Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo. He completed the first trimester, but soon after graduated from college.
“I made an indefinite suspension and then return. I do not think it is necessary for the university, but I want to return as soon as possible because I need the title,” admits the young man.
But first, he says, he must complete his military service. “Then I will return to university,” he says.
In the meantime, he continues to work in his small workman, creating ingenious machines that are not only giving him income, but also a fame he did not expect and with which he seems to feel very comfortable.
“Becoming famous was not my goal, but one of my dreams,” he confesses.
Technology to “change the world”
It’s about Wall-E, a tender machine that on Disney’s tape fixes the mess that caused humanity, and in the world of Quispe born of the own garbage to remind us a lesson: creativity has no limits.
