RoboCupJunior Milton Keynes Tournament

• Date: Monday 26th February 2007
• Location: Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
• Contact: Dr Ashley Green
• Visit: http://rcj.open.ac.uk/

Staffordshire University Robot Fun Day

The IET NW Midlands branch is sponsoring a Robot Fun Day. The event will feature demonstrations of animatronics, and presentations on special effects, animatronics, robot competitions, and space robotics.

• Date: 21st Feb, 1pm-6pm
• Location: Staffordshire University
• Contact: s.o.wane@staffs.ac.uk
• Visit: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/personal/.../sow1/

Robot Thought at W5

Robot Thought at W5

W5, in partnership with the OU, kick off this leg of the national roll out of this interactive dialogue event, designed to challenge and stimulate public thinking about the latest developments in robotics.

• Date: launching 18 Feb, running in schools as well as onsite after that
• Location: W5, Belfast
• Admission: Free
• Contact: Karen Bultitude
• Visit: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas/graphicscience/

Robots at Brighton Science Festival

Leading roboticists from Walking with Robots take robots from the labs to the Brighton Science Festival for an interactive "show and tell" aimed at older audiences.

• Date: 18th February and 24th February
• Location: Brighton Science Festival
• Admission: Free
• Contact: Claire Rocks
• Visit: http://www.brightonscience.com/

Robot Thought at Techniquest

Robot Thought at Techniquest

Techniquest, in partnership with the OU, kick off this leg of the national roll out of this interactive dialogue event, designed to challenge and stimulate public thinking about the latest developments in robotics.

• Date: Feb 17 - 25
• Location: Techniquest, Cardiff
• Admission: Free to Techniquest visitors
• Contact: Karen Bultitude
• Visit: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas/graphicscience/

The Robot Show*

Using the very latest in computers and cardboard the Robot Show will explore the relationship between man and technology, creation and free will: are humans in control or are the machines? Half play, half scientific experiment, it aims to push what is possible in terms of human interaction with theatre.

The Robots will use special equipment to measure the response of the audience and integrate those responses into each show - if you laugh, Robots tell you another joke, if you get bored something changes. Are the audience in control or are Robots?

• Date: 13th to 15th February at 8.30pm
• Location: Battersey Arts Centre
• Admission: Tickets are £5 (£3 concessions)
• Visit: http://www.bac.org.uk/

*This is not a WWR organised event

Hewlett Packard Science Lecture

The Hewlett-Packard Science Lectures were established in 1996 as a forum for improving the public understanding of science. Professor Alan Winfield will give an exciting talk on Walking with Robots: a new kind of engagement between humans and robots.

• Date: Wednesday 24th January 2007
• Location: HP Laboratories Bristol
• Contact: Professor Alan Winfield
• Visit: http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/lectures/

FIRST LEGO League UK Final

First Lego League is an international programme for children aged between 9 and 16 years that combines a hands-on, interactive robotics program with a sports-like atmosphere using the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System.

• Date: Saturday 27th January 2007
• Location: Great Hall at the University of Birmingham
• Contact: Dr Ashley Green
• Visit: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/