What was the name of the robotic sidekick on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson?

The robotic sidekick on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson was Geoff Peterson.

Geoff Peterson was introduced on the CBS late-night program in 2010. The character was a skeletal animatronic robot who sat beside host Craig Ferguson and participated in jokes, interviews, and improvised exchanges. Animator and special-effects expert Grant Imahara helped create and operate the character.

Peterson was designed to resemble a futuristic skeleton rather than a conventional humanoid robot. His voice and personality developed as recurring parts of Ferguson’s deliberately loose, conversational format. The robot often served as a comic foil for Ferguson and interacted with the show’s other recurring figures.

A common mix-up is confusing Peterson with Secretariat, Ferguson’s sock puppet horse. Secretariat was another memorable character on the program, but Geoff Peterson was the robotic sidekick. The Late Late Show later continued under James Corden, whose version used a different cast of recurring features and characters.