Edison 2.0 is going to make its first appearance with lots of other cool RobotFun robots on this Sunday, December 4, 2016. We will be one of the attractions at PhysicsFest Ipswich, which is being held at Northgate High School, Sidegate Lane East, Ipswich. The event is on Sunday, December 4, 2016 and runs from […]
RobotFun at the Suffolk Festival of Learning
RobotFun is delighted to be taking part in the upcoming Suffolk Festival of Learning. It’s being held this Friday, 21 October, in the University of Suffolk’s rather nice waterfront building in Ipswich. We’re expecting something over a thousand teachers and other educational professionals to attend. The RobotFun stand will showcase the services that we can offer to schools, namely […]
Robot Dancing World Record – We Can Do This Too
Interesting news from China this week. There is apparently a world record for robot line dancing, and it was broken in at the Qingdao Beer Festival in China. No fewer than 1007 Aldebaran Robotics Nao mini humanoid robots strutted their funky stuff in unison for a whole minute. It is all in the BBC News report […]
STEM Fair at Framlingham
At the invitation of Ambra Calver at Thomas Mills High School, a small selection of robots and I went off there last week to support their Y9 and Y10 STEM Fair. It was good to meet some very interesting people, staff as well as students, and I hope that I managed to convince a few people […]
Workshops and Assembly in Corby
I was delighted to be asked by Angie Alloway of Studfall Junior School in Corby to present to an assembly and to run four robotics workshops for their Y6 classes over the course of a school day. The big day was 15 March and was part of the school’s Science Week events. For me it […]
STEM Fair ’16 at Stour Valley
I had a very early start last Wednesday. To get to the other side of Suffolk and to be able to set out my stall before the children started arriving at 08:30 I had to be on the road before 7. This was all thanks to Dan Stephens, the STEM coordinator at Stour Valley Community […]
PhysicsFest ’15
We were really pleased invited by the East Anglia branch of the Institute of Physics to take part in Physicsfest ’15. This was an afternoon of physics related fun and experiments that was held at Northgate School in Ipswich. Most of our current robots went along, and it was a good job that they did, […]
Thunderbirds are back, with strings attached!
Not much to do with robots, I know, well, apart from the fact that there were one or two robot characters and the acting was sometimes a teeny bit wooden, but Thunderbirds, my favourite programme from when I was a kid is returning for three brand new episodes. What’s really cool is that they are […]
Welcome to BB-8. This IS the Droid You’re Looking For
The new Star Wars movie is coming out soon, and the marketing rush has started in earnest. For a robot fan like me, this means that there’s a new addition to the Star Wars robot crowd – BB-8. In the film, this is a real robot, having been designed and built by the clever people […]
Enter Edison
Just added a new page about the fantastic Edison robot from Australia that has recently joined the RobotFun menagerie. Check it out!