Origin

Gyro is a engineering genius. He has designed and created some of the strangest things, like robot to Gizmo Duck's gizmo suit. A lot of his inventions have gone to help Scrooge McDuck's wealth go or to protect that wealth.

Creation

He was created by Created by Carl Barks in 1952. Unlike Scrooge and the others, Gyro is not actually a duck - Clay Barks stated in an interview that he was in fact a chicken.

Beginning in Uncle Scrooge #13, Gyro was the main character in the last four pages feature. In Uncle Scrooge #15 Gyro got his first supporting character called just The Helper.

Gyro was first animated in Disney's Duck Tales. He was voiced by Hal Smith.

DIA (later known as "SHUSH")

Gyro revealed in the Duck Tales episode "Double-0-Duck" that he pays his rent by creating gadgets for DIA. He creates for Launchpad a comb-phone, a camera-bow tie, a gun tupay, and some exploding cuff-links.