Robot Outings
Over the years I have had my robots at various computer fairs, and exhibitions, a lot of which I can't remember.
Here are some later ones which I can remember.
2009 Tuesday 27 October, Manchester Festival Of Science
Trafford Centre, near Urmston
Robotics Outreach under the Walking With Robots banner.
TecFoots Condor and Wild-Eagle wandering about the Trafford Centre interacting with the public.
2009 Monday 26 October, Manchester Festival Of Science
Museum Of Science and Industry, Manchester.
Robotics Outreach under the Walking With Robots banner.
TecFoots Condor and Wild-Eagle wandering about in the Festival Of Robotics room interacting with the public.
2009 12 September, The Cybernetics Society - Annual Meeting
Kings College, London.
TecFoot-Condor
2009 Friday 22 April, Robot Relays filming in Bristol
Millenium Square, Bristol.
Filming pilot footage for a TV program.
2009 Saturday 28th March, Science Oxford open day
Science Oxford, 1-5 London Place, Oxford.
2009 Saturday 28 February Brighton 'Big Science' festival
Robotics Outreach under the Walking With Robots banner.
TecFoots Condor and Wild-Eagle and Mom and Pop Ambler
2008 29 November, Micromouse competition
Technology Innovation centre, Birmingham
2008 6,7 September, BA Festival Of Science, Liverpool
Robotics Outreach under the Walking With Robots banner.
TecFoot Condor and video
2008 28 June, My robots on display at the Micromouse competition
Technology Innovation centre, Birmingham
Robotics Outreach under the Walking With Robots banner.
2008 4,5,6 June Cheltenham Science Festival
Robotics Outreach under the Walking With Robots banner.
2008 28 May to 1 June, Royal Bath & West Show
Robotics Outreach under the Walking With Robots banner.
2008 17,18 May, Rise Of The Robots
National Space Centre, Leicester.
2008 12, 13th April, QUANTA Workshop and AGM 2008
3rd Davyhulme Scout Headquarters, Conway Road, Davyhulme, Manchester M41 0TE
TecFoots Wild-Eagle and Condor,
Simplhex, Mom and Pop Ambler with Frea in front; and my talk on robotics.
2008 17-21 February, Walking with Robots - Robotics Outreach Workshop
@Bristol, Millenium Square, Bristol.
TecFoots Condor and Wild-Eagle and Mom and Pop Ambler
TecFoot Condor video,
Ambler Pop video
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| A publicity photo with
Professor Alan Winfield
from UWE
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2006 10 June, My robots on display at the Micromouse competition
Technology Innovation centre, Birmingham
2006 8,9 April, Quanta's Annual General Meeting
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| Quanta's Annual General Meeting for 2006 was held on 08-09/04/06 at the 3rd Davyhulme Scout Headquarters in Davyhulme, Manchester. I took along some of my robots.
Bipeds Mom and Pop Ambler, Toddler, Frea and Loki; and Hextor the hexapod.
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2005 12th August, Discovery TV, program filming
| 12th August 2005, Discovery TV.
Martin Smith, Ian Swan and myself, David Buckley, at the Open University for filming of a Discovery TV program on Robots.
Ian Swan's white biped is just to the right of Martin.
Martin brought two hexapods, both just by his right hand.
The rest of the robots are mine.
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2002 December, TechnoGames 2003
| Taken at the filming of TechnoGames 2003 on Tuesday 17 December 2002
at Hangar 2, RAF Newton, Bingham, nr Nottingham.
Left to right can be seen:-
John Shepherd;
a red BigFoot;
a Parallax Toddler;
the prototype BigFoot;
'Cyborg' John Shepherd's biped;
Pop Ambler;
a production TecFoot;
Mom Ambler with David Buckley behind;
Scarlet by Roger Starnes, see Roger's pages on this site.
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The following day, Wednesday 18 December, Cycler Shakespeare was filmed with Wendy Jenkinson from Waste Watch.
2002 Robodex (Japan). The organisers invited and paid for the Shadow Group to take the Shadow Biped to have on display at the exhibition.
| It was voted the favourite Robot by an exit poll.
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1997 Robot Olympics, Glasgow
ROBOTIX97 13-16 March 1997, Glasgow, UK
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| Martin Smith of the University of East London
took my robot Victoria in her RoboCop guise
and maybe Elizabeth and TinyTim as well.
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1996 Robot Olympics, Glasgow
Robotix96 exhibition in Glasgow, 15th & 16th March 1996.
Teal, Icarus, Fred, Hexy, WiLF, Timbug-II, Quester, M23, Zeaker-black, Zeaker-white, Prowler, DoubleVision, Modular-1, Zero-2, First-Step, Shadow-Biped, Omnivore, Liberator, Simplhex, Elizabeth, Victoria, TinyTim, Amater, Clarissa-May and Snowdrop.
- Quester won the 'Thezeus Award 1996' created and presented by Alan Dibley.
- Simplhex won the 1st prize for multilegged unaided robots (ie it was autonomous).
1996 Model Engineering Show London
5th & 6th January 1996
Victoria
| TinyTim
| Simplhex
| The University of East London had a recruitment stand at the show manned by Martin Smith and myself. I demonstrated Victoria, Simplhex and TinyTim (and maybe others). Simplhex was working off a bench power supply and was walking all day for both days and wore flats on the ends of its aluminium legs.
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1990 Robot Olympics, Glasgow
27th to 28th September 1990 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
1990 Shadow Biped Tomorrow's World BBC Tv Science program, 18th January 1990.
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| Howard demonstrating the Shadow Data-Suit controlling the Shadow Biped.
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1988 January, International Model Engineering Show, Wembley, England.
First-Step
Modular-1
M23 Quester
Zeaker
