locations of work in in partnership with Gems Display Figures
Animatronics, Robotics and Props - latest at top
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2013 refurbishment of my human sized Shadow Biped robot for the Science Museum London.
2013 Special effect flying shoes for a Berlin show.
2011 Creation of a breathing torso for The War Tunnels museum, Jersey.
2011 Creation of a special effect table for Svein Flygari Johansen, a Nowegian artist.
2011 Creation of an animatronic Nutcracker Doll for the English National Ballet's forthcoming production of 'The Nutcracker'.
2011 creation of a pair of human sized animatronic legs using Mckibben type pneumatic muscles.
2010 work on a Jim Whiting installation at the Shaubuden Festival in Dresden.
2010 Flickering electronic Oil-Lamp head for a Yinka Shonibare figure exhibited in Jerusalem.
2009 Control electronics and software for Jim Whiting's Boxer Shorts Bingo at the BAC and Royal Festival Hall, London
2009 Puppeting system and show control of Jim Whiting's Deus ex Machina, West Fluegel Theatre, Leipzig
2009 Gaze-Controls - animatronic neck posts for Gems articulated figures
2009 Animatronic figure with moving head and writing hand for - The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust - Gems Studio.
2009 Control electronics for Lulu Guinness's Cuckoo Bag, via Adam Wright
2009 Animatronic Dinosaur with moving head, for a Newcastle upon Tyne museum
2008 Two animatronic Dinosaurs with moving eyes, for a Newcastle upon Tyne museum
2008 Facially expressive Animatronic head with silicone skin, with mouth and eyebrow movements, Nottingham Trent University
2008 Shadow Electric Dextrous Hand - development work on Electrics and Electronics and Mechanical design of forearm
2007 Animatronic Colonel Stephens, locomotive designer, for Kent & East Sussex Railway Museum, Tenterden - Gems Studio
2006 Animatronic head with Gaze-Eyes for a Swedish museum - Gems Studio
2005 Robotic human sized leg for research into powered prosthetics - Shadow Robot Co. for North Carolina A & T University
2005 Sleeping Sailor for SS Great Britain - Gems Studio
2004 Inhaler Girl with billowing cloth - Gems Studio
2004 Animatronic Sir William Stanier - The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust - Gems Studio
2004 Animatronic Prisoner - REME - Gems Display Figures
2004 Animatronic Sergeant writing - REME - Gems Display Figures
2004 Silicone skin talking and gesturing Dr Mirakel - Spirit of Salzburg, Salzburg - Gems Studio
2004 Silicone skin talking and writing Butler - Spirit of Salzburg, Salzburg - Gems Studio
2003 Animatronic Policeman - Police Federation - Gems Display Figures
2003 Animatronic Crofter - the Hootananny Celtic Heritage Centre, Inverness - Gems Display Figures
2003 Animatronic Grasshopper caught in a web - Anthony Bennet - Inatura, Museum of Natural History, Dornbirn, Austria
2003 2 Animatronic Larvae with flickering lights inside - Anthony Bennet - Inatura, Museum of Natural History, Dornbirn, Austria
2002 3 Cycler Presentation Robots for Waste Watch
2002 Ambler - Biped Robot - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
2002 TecRover mobile robot base for Milford Instruments
2002 Computer controlled Pan and Tilt for Milford Instruments
2002 Animatronic talking Celt - 'Setantii Tales of Thameside' museum Ashton-under-Lyne - Gems Display Figures
2001 Hextor - Hexapod Robot - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
2001 Alfred type Animatronic Head - Hugo refurbished as a Bishop - Wales - Gems Display Figures
2001 Alfred Animatronic Head version 2, English Civil War figure - demonstration - Gems Display Figures
2001 Cyclist - a Cycle-shop, Ireland - Gems Display Figures
2000 TecFoot - Biped Robot - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
2000 Snake Head - Speckled Band - Sherlock Holmes Museum, Baker St, London - Gems Display Figures
2000 Breathing Statue with moving eyes - Vienna, Austria - Gems Display Figures
2000 Flag Man - Hugo - to go with the Golfer, raised flag from out of the putting hole - Gems Display Figures
2000 Golfer - Bob Hope, later Bill Cosby, playing golf - holes 15 foot putts with ease - demonstration - Gems Display Figures
2000 3 Men with moving head and arm - German Buses - A touring information show for schools - Gems Display Figures
2000 3 Ladies with moving heads - German Buses - A touring information show for schools - Gems Display Figures
2000 2 Alfred type Animatronic Heads - Paris touring information show about diabetes - Gems Display Figures
2000 2 Alfred type Animatronic Heads + animated apothecary - National Pharmacy Museum, Portugal - Gems Display Figures
2000 Alfred - Animatronic Head - demonstration - Gems Display Figures
2000 Animatronic Head - Horse World museum - Gems Display Figures
1999 3 Gaze-Control Heads - Bodmin, Court Museum - Gems Display Figures
1999 3 Hugo type Animatronic Heads - Bodmin, Court Museum - Gems Display Figures
1999 TecArm - Robot Arm - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
1999 Dickens - Silicone skin Hugo type Animatronic Head - demonstration - Gems Display Figures
1998 New Invention - rebuild - Beauty and the Beast - British
1998 New Invention - repair - Beauty and the Beast - Canadian
1998 Hugo - Animatronic Head - Gems Display Figures
1998 Large Scales - display
1998 BigFoot - Biped Robot - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
1998 Alex - Animatronic Head - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
1998 Railway train for Oklahoma at the Royal National Theatre
1998 Postman Pat Van - Postman Pat touring show
1998 Cardboard Hugo - Animatronic Head -> Alex #43, - workshop on animatronics to The Royal National Theatre, London
1997 Electronics for the Stumbling Machine - Simon Lewandowski
1997 Barrel Man - London Pageant Dark-Ride - Gems Display Figures
1997 Barrel Man - Dungeons of Windsor - Gems Display Figures
1997 Breathing Sailors - for SS Great Britain - Gems Display Figures
1997 Dead Lady on Coffin for Grusil(?) Cabinet Berlin (Grisly Show) - Gems Display Figures
1996 7 heads with Moving Eyes - Berlin museum - Gems Display Figures
1996 Gaze-Control Heads - Gems Display Figures
1994 Target and Pig pantomime prop
1994 Victoria - mobile robot
1994 Camel-3a new base for #3 for British touring production of 'Joseph'
1993 Elizabeth - mobile robot
1993 Camel-3 electric for British touring production of 'Joseph'
1992 Greenhill Flash Boxes
1992 Shadow Digit interface
1992 Pulser Boxes for a Jim Whiting show
1992 Railway Engine for Pygmalion stage show
1992 A Flying Magpie - The Thieving Magpie - Leeds Opera North
1992 Camel-2 electric for American touring production of 'Joseph'
1992 Nutcracker Doll - The Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of the Nutcracker
1992 Pneumatics for the EuroDisney Paris, Sleeping-Beauty Pop-up Book
1991 Flower - Chanel-4 opera 'Camera'
1991 Petshop Boys' world tour 1991 stage props - water tank lighting
1991 Petshop Boys' world tour 1991 stage props - torture box lighting
1991 Petshop Boys' world tour 1991 stage props - clock lighting
1991 special effect magic-bottles and cake for a Rohl Dahl play
1991 Camel-1 mechanical for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, London Palladium
1991 Large Electronic Components - display
1991 Flickering Fire stage prop
1991 Sparking lamp-post for Mr Bean stage show
1991 Shadow Liberator mobile robot
1991 Flight Simulator concept working model
1990 Seed Birds - radio controlled animatronic birds, 'Into the Woods', the Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Rd London.
1990 Control system for Lion and Unicorn sculpture - Thomas Scholtz
1989/90 Control systems for Jim Whiting's shows, Cologne, Berlin, Warwick, London, Glasgow
1988 Shadow Biped Walker
1988 Robot Arm RX-500 prototype for Concorde Robotic
1984 Zero-2 desktop mobile robot, IGR Ltd
1982 Zeaker desktop mobile robot, Colne Robotics Ltd
Items above for countries and places outside Gt Britain
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Austria - Silicone skin talking and gesturing Dr Mirakel - Spirit of Salzburg, Salzburg
Silicone skin talking and writing Butler - Spirit of Salzburg, Salzburg
Larvae and Prey - Inatura, Museum of Natural History, Dornbirn.
Breathing Statue with moving eyes - Vienna, Austria
Belgium - Gaze Controls for animated heads on figures in museums
Canada - Gaze Controls for animated heads on figures in museums
France - 2 Alfred type animatronic heads - Paris touring information show about diabetes
- Pneumatics for the EuroDisney Paris, Sleeping-Beauty Pop-up Book
Germany - Special effect flying shoes for a dance show.
a pair of pneumatic powered animatronic legs
3 Ladies with moving heads - German Buses - touring information show for schools
3 Men with moving head and arm - German Buses - touring information show for schools
Dead Lady on Coffin for GruselKabinett Berlin (Grisly Show)
7 heads with moving eyes - Berlin museum
Ireland - Cyclist - a Cycle-shop, Ireland
Jersey - Gaze Control Heads and beathing torso, War Tunnels museum
Portugal - 2 Alfred type animatronic heads + animated apothecary
National Pharmacy Museum, Portugal
Singapore - Gaze Control Head - Lord Mountbatten, animated wax head in a museum
Sweden - Gaze Control Head for animated head on a figure in a museum
USA - Gaze Controls for animated heads on figures in museums
Camel-2 electric, for American touring production of 'Joseph'
Work in partnership with Gems Studio / Gems Display Figures
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Our animatronic figures can be seen in numerous locations including
Beachey Head Visitors Centre;
Bodmin Assize Court Museum;
Brecknock Museum;
Gruselkabinett, Berlin;
Hootananny Kolibh, Scotland;
Images of Singapore Museum, Singapore;
Jersey War Tunnels museum;
Josephine Tussaud Wax Works, USA;
National Pharmacy Museum, Lisbon;
Pioneers Museum, Singapore;
Police Federation Exhibition;
REME Museum of Technology, Arborfield garrison, Wokingham;
The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust, nr Ripley;
Sandwell Park Farm;
The Setanti Museum, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire;
Spirit of Salzburg Museum, Salzburg;
Wax Museum, Austria;
WPP Advertising.