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A couple of weekends ago we (Aberystwyth Robotics) held our annual “Beachlab” event. Usually, this is a hands-on event with robots and activities on the promenade. This year, we had to relocate to the campus because of COVID issues, and the robots were strictly hands-off for attendees. It was a bit like a pop-up robot museum, rather than an interactive display, but hey that’s better than nothing. <\/p>\n

This was the first outing for our new robotic submarine Afanc (which means “Beaver” in Welsh). Here I am talking about how the sub works:<\/p>\n

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And here I am posing with the submarine whilst surrounded by other robots<\/p>\n

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We had other exhibits – entertainment robots by Steve Fearn (some of which you can spot above), robot vehicles, a mars rover, lots of little robots, drones, some sensor based stuff applied to healthcare and even a display about materials science (diamonds). Here’s Steve showing off the robot sumo.<\/p>\n

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And here is Patricia with Miro, a cute robot dog\/rabbit\/cat\/thing.<\/p>\n

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The end of the day group shot had to be socially distant, but we still go it in<\/p>\n

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And here are all the official photos turned into an animated gif.<\/p>\n

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Massive thanks to Siwsi Fearn for the photos – see siwsi.co.uk<\/a> for her business page!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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