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  • locations outside the UK where some of my animatronic work can be seen
  • 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.