Every year for the past three years, we have taken part in the Aberystwyth University robotics’, annual outreach event, called Beachlab. It is catered towards bringing robots to the public, who otherwise might not have the chance to interact with them. It promotes engineering, maths, and robotics in general to people of all ages, and […]
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This year was the second year we went to Portmeirion’s Steampunk event. It’s a beautiful venue, in one of many incredibly scenic places in Wales, filled with a whole heap of amazingly dressed people. We like to go dressed up in our finery, and we especially enjoy taking part in teapot racing. Teapot racing (in […]
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On the 10th of July, we visited the beautiful Aberystwyth public library to display our robots along side the Aber Intelligent Robotics Group as part of the ’22 Summer Reading Challenge, which was focusing on science and technology this year. The library had a lot of space, but it was understandably filled with books and […]
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Our Silent Hill Head project was another Halloween project that we undertook in ’21. We created her for two main reasons: 1.) we don’t like wasting things, and the broken drone parts were just going to end up being thrown away otherwise, and 2.) we also wanted to show that you can build a robot […]
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Terror Ted already looked like he was ready to hurt you while you slept, but for some reason, we decided that wasn’t enough. Built as part of two Halloween projects we undertook in 2021, he looks obviously terrifying. We wanted him to look like something you’d see out of a dystopian sci-fi franchise/horror film. We […]
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Our twin robots – A.R.T.I. 3 (Aneira) and A.R.T.I. 4 (Eirlys) – were the stars of the show on our display at BeachLab:relocated (2021), at Aberystwyth University last year. We use the twins for most of our demonstrations; they’re reliable, always fully charged, and their speed usually gets a pleasing reaction from onlookers while still […]
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Something that has always been on our robotic to-do list is to make our own Teapot Racer. Teapot racing became a thing due to a Simone Montgomery in Dunedin, New Zealand who wanted to create something that everyone, regardless of ability, could join in, and have fun with. We’ve always loved the idea, and when […]
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On the 19th of June 2021, we visited Aberystwyth University to take part in their brilliant BeachLab:relocated robotics event. BeachLab this year took place at the Computer Science and Physics departments’ joint car parks because the usual Bandstand venue was closed due to covid. So BeachLab:relocated was born, and we were ecstatic to be there.
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We decided a long time ago that when we were building robots, especially just for fun, that we would build them as individually as possible. Different projects, built on different chassis’ (whether we buy them or make them), would allow us to find the robot’s character as it emerges after completion. Indeed with our A.R.T.I […]
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