Tadashi Hamada

Tadashi Hamada's History

Tadashi was an inventor and the older brother of Hiro Hamada. The Hamada boys were taken in by their aunt Cass sometime after the death of their parents, where they were raised in her café in the city of San Fransokyo. While Hiro was unable to remember their parents due to his young age, Tadashi possessed a clear memory of what they were like. During their childhood, Hiro exhibited high intellect for his young age, although Tadashi was the only person to fully understand how he felt due to the boy's intelligence isolating him from friends. They also came up with a special set of rules that only they knew. On Halloween, Tadashi also took his brother to haunted houses.

By the time Hiro graduated from high school at the age of 13, Tadashi was accepted into the prestigious San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, where he became friends with Go Go Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred.

On the last Christmas before his death, Tadashi built a Snow Machine because it didn't snow where they lived. The machine malfunctioned and caused an avalanche, but Tadashi kept it as he intended to fix it and give it as a present for Hiro next year.

During his time studying at SFIT and majoring in Robotics under the tutelage of Professor Robert Callaghan, Tadashi earned his own laboratory through hard work—a lab that belonged to a former student, Bob Aken, a few decades before. Tadashi admired Callaghan, but also became a fan of SFIT graduate Dr. Trevor Trengrove as he read Trengrove's groundbreaking thesis about artificial intelligence titled "Artificial Fun-telligence". Tadashi owned a copy of this thesis and became inspired by it, as well as his desire to help people, to start his very own project about a healthcare companion robot that would help anyone in need. He named his project "Baymax" and went through 84 attempts until the robot was perfected. Tadashi recorded each test, and although at times he felt tired or desperate that Baymax wasn't working the way he wanted, he never gave up as his motivation to help as many people as he could was strong. Since Tadashi was not an expert in the medical field, he asked fellow student Lily for help to code a healthcare chip with a large database of nursing information for Baymax that allowed him to hold most kinds of information—including memories and a personality of its own.

After the final test, Tadashi was excited and wanted to show Baymax to Hiro, though he first introduced the robot to Aunt Cass and his friends. Tadashi also participated in a seismic project for SFIT where he created a model of a building that would support huge earthquakes, and Baymax learned about this.

However, Hiro, not wanting to attend college himself because he considered it a waste of time, soon became involved with bot fighting, to the displeasure of Tadashi who believed that Hiro was wasting his potential when he could do something useful with his unusual gift. Due to this new problematic behavior, Tadashi had sewn mini-GPS systems into every one of Hiro's hoodies to keep track of him so he could come to his rescue when needed.