Robots

We're number 1 according to Emma Williams at Total Education. Recently, Total Education published a blog listing the top robotics companies operating within the field of education and Active Robots are happy to announce that we have been voted number 1! Continue reading →

Before this week I had two impressions of 3D printers. You have the huge, expensive machines that take days to print and cost more than I'd earn in a year. Then you have the other printers that, whilst affordable, print fuzzy and poor quality items. When I was tasked with using a cheap 3D printer I assumed it would be the latter, and I'd be lucky to make out feet from faces. It would turn out that this assumption couldn't have been further from the truth. Continue reading →

Ever since robots first appeared in works of science fiction in the early twentieth century, successive generations of people have dreamed about the possibility of ‘consumer’ or ‘domestic’ robots such as ROSIE, the robotic maid in ‘The Jetsons’, taking the drudgery out of everyday life. Continue reading →

Active Robots have spent time, during September and October, visiting Universities in England and Scotland to provide presentations about its Baxter Research Robot. Continue reading →

Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) have already had a major impact on industries ranging from healthcare to transport and logistics, but as robots become cheaper, smaller and more reliable, they will become increasingly relevant to daily life. Continue reading →

The evolution of education has occurred over many centuries, although the process was only really formalised and envisioned as a mandatory part of a child’s development within the last 150 years. Continue reading →

The rise of Robotics is something that has to be embraced within the classroom in order to prepare the future generations for a world in which automation is far more ubiquitous than it is today. Continue reading →

My second task during work experience was to get two cute Wall·E like bots up and running. The plan was to have them whizzing around whilst blaring out music. These bots seemed relatively cute and simple compared to the behemoth of the hexapod, so I began trying to fix them. Continue reading →

Having had no prior experience with any robotics, it was quite daunting to see a huge hexapod lying in front of me on my first day of work experience. This hexapod had been abandoned in a box for many years, wires were spewed out across its lifeless back and its circuitry was all exposed. It was my job to nurture this poor robotic ant back to health. Continue reading →