The Voice of Wall•e
Interview with Ben Burtt — the voice of Wall•e, and the man behind the sounds of Star Wars:
When he’s going slowly, he makes a little whirring sound and that is the sound I heard it actually in a John Wayne movie called Island in the Sky on Turner Classic Movies. There was a guy turning a little generator, a soldier generating power. I said I like that generator sound, that is cool, and so where can I get one? I found one on eBay.