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"The Robot Garden"

Claire Rocks and Emily Dawson joined pupils at Rhosnesni High School in Wrexham to build a Robot Garden. Funded through a Royal Society Partnership Grant they worked with the teacher, Mark Harmsworth, and 25 Year 8 and 9 pupils to design and build robot flowers, robot bugs and a backdrop to accompany it.

Robot Thought at The Centre for Life, Newcastle

The Centre for Life, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh, 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: October half-term
• Location: The Centre for Life, Newcastle
• Contact: Karen Bultitude
• Visit: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas/graphicscience/

RoboFesta-UK 7th Annual Open Meeting

Educators, academic researchers and industry representatives are meeting at the Open University to discuss the development of RoboFesta-UK and Walking with Robots. The RoboFesta-UK annual open meeting is unique in its scope, and in previous years has provided fertile ground for establishing new robotics related initiatives on local and national scales. A highlight of this year's meeting will be a presentation incorporating the best features of public performances held in Science Centres across the UK over the past year as part of the EPSRC-funded "Robot Thought" project.

• Date: November 1st 2007
• Location: Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Milton Keynes
• Contact: Ashley Green

Medical Robotics: Touching a Nerve

A glimpse into the future of neural implant technology in Humans. The talk has been arranged by the Machine Vision Lab at UWE in association with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Bath & Bristol Region.

• Date: November 6th 2007, at 7pm
• Location: Glenridding Theatre, University of the West of England
• Contact: Kevin Warwick

Hands On Activities Imagineering

Ashley Green (The OU) and Bill Bigge (Sussex) will be running hands-on robotics activities as part of the Imagineering Fair 2007

• Date: November 24th and 25th 2007
• Location: Jaguar Exhibition Hall, Ricoh Arena, Coventry
• Visit: www.imagineeringweb.co.uk

Introduction to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: Robosoccer

• Date: November 7th 2007
• Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
• Contact: Ashley Green

Comenius EURoboCup Project Meeting

This is the first meeting of the new EC-funded Comenius EURoboCup project (involving schools from the UK, Finland and Hungary.

• Date: November 19th-21st 2007
• Location: Liverpool
• Contact: Ashley Green

Introduction to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: The Lego Challenge

• Date: November 21st 2007
• Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
• Contact: Ashley Green

FIRST LEGO League South West Tournament

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. Claire will be judging the South West regional tournament.

• Date: Thursday 29th November 2007
• Location: University of Bath
• Contact: Claire Rocks

Vision Conference

Walking with Robots, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering and the London Engineering Project, are hosting a Young Peoples' Vision Conference. The conference will provide 45 post-16 students from a number of schools in the London area with a unique opportunity to explore visions of their future and the part robots will play.

• Date: December 4th and 5th 2007
• Location: Royal Academy of Engineering, London
• Contact: Claire Rocks