Classroom & club kits
Robots pitched at a group's level, from first-timers to competition builders, that survive being handled and rebuilt week after week.
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Robotics
Robots we design, build and actually understand
Hands-on educational robots built to be programmed and controlled, and bespoke custom robots for one specific job — from classroom kits to industrial automation — plus the software to run them and the parts to build your own. Mechanics, electronics, software and components, all under one roof near Aztec West.
Where to start
Three kinds of build
Learning kit that rewards curiosity, bespoke machines for a single job, and automation that earns its keep on the production floor. Jump straight to whichever you came for.
Educational robots
For schools, clubs and makers. A robust platform for learning to program and control.
Custom robots
Bespoke machines for a defined task — one-offs and small runs, built around the job.
Industrial automation
Robotic cells, machine tending and process automation that run a job the same way every time.
Educational robots
Built to be programmed
The best learning robot is one a student can drive, sense and program — writing the code, watching the behaviour change, and building up to real autonomy. Ours are built for exactly that.
A platform for learning control
A robust, ready-to-run machine students learn to command — not one to take apart. The focus is control: drive it, read its sensors, program how it behaves. Then it grows with the learner — add a sensor and make it react, then hand over to a small autonomous routine (line following, obstacle avoidance, a little vision). Block-style or text coding on the same machine, with a live view of every sensor, all running on the robot itself.
- Ready to run — no assembly to get started, rugged enough for a classroom
- Block-style and text coding, with live sensor readouts
- Runs on its own hardware — readable, self-hosted, nothing phones home
Custom robots
Bespoke machines for a specific job
When there's nothing off the shelf that fits, we design and build the one machine the job actually needs — and we do all of it: the frame, the moving parts, the boards and the software that ties them together.
One-offs to small runs
Some jobs need exactly one machine. Others need a handful of identical ones. We take a task you describe in plain terms — move this, watch that, do the repetitive thing every time without fail — and turn it into a working robot, then make more if you need them. You own the design, the drawings and the code at the end of it.
- Prototype first, prove it, then repeat the build
- Documented so it can be maintained without us in the room
- No cloud dependency — it keeps working if the internet does not
Design, mechanics, electronics and control software — all in-house
The awkward part of custom robotics is where the disciplines meet: a motor that is right on paper but too heavy for the frame, firmware that has to know exactly how the joint moves. Because the mechanical design, the electronics and the control code all happen in the same place, those seams get sorted early instead of on delivery day.
- CAD and mechanical design through to a machine that moves
- Custom electronics, sensing and motor control
- Control software, safety limits and an operator interface you can actually use
Industrial automation
Automating the repetitive, reliably
When a job on the floor is done by hand over and over, we automate it — a self-contained robotic cell, a machine-tending arm, a line that runs itself — built to do the same thing the same way every shift, and to drop in alongside the equipment you already run.
Cells, arms, machine tending — and the controls behind them
Pick-and-place, sorting, feeding a machine, packing at the end of a line — the repetitive tasks that wear people down and slip when they're tired. We build the cell around the task: the arm or mechanism, the guarding, the sensing that knows when something's off, and the controls that run it — panel, PLC or PC, and an operator screen anyone on shift can use. Crucially, it talks to the machines and lines already on your floor rather than asking you to rip everything out, and it runs on-site so a dropped connection never stops production.
- Robotic cells, pick-and-place, machine tending and end-of-line handling
- Control panels, PLC / PC control and HMI screens — safe-by-design
- Integrates with your existing machines and lines — local and offline
More than the machine
Software and parts, not just robots
Two things people don't always expect: we'll write the software for hardware we didn't build, and we can supply the parts for you to build and maintain your own.
Robot & control software
Firmware, motion control, vision and operator interfaces — written for your hardware, even if we didn't build it.
Parts & components supplied
Motors, drivers, controllers, sensors and kits — sourced or made in-house, so you can build and repair your own.
Retrofits & upgrades
New brains for an ageing machine — bring an old robot or rig back to life with modern control.
How a build runs
Concept to support, in five stages
Whether it is a classroom kit or a one-off machine, the path is the same — and you can see it at every step, not just at the end.
01
Concept
We start with the job in plain language and work out what the robot really has to do, what would count as done, and where the hard parts are.
02
Design
Mechanics, electronics and control approach are designed together, so the frame, the motors and the code agree before anything is cut.
03
Build
We fabricate the mechanics, wire the electronics and assemble the machine, proving each subsystem as it goes on rather than at the end.
04
Program
Control software, sensing, safety limits and the operator interface are written and tuned against the real hardware, not a simulation of it.
05
Support
You get the drawings, the code and the spares, plus us on the end of the line. Because it is self-hosted, it stays yours to maintain.
Where they go
Example applications
A sense of the range. Each of these has been shaped around a specific setting rather than sold as a fixed product.
Line-following & maze runners
A classic first autonomy project done properly — clear sensors, honest wiring and code you can read, so the behaviour is understood, not magic.
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Robotic arms & handling
Bespoke arms and grippers for pick-and-place, sorting and repetitive handling, with limits and an operator interface built in.
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Rovers & inspection robots
Wheeled and tracked platforms that carry cameras or sensors where a person would rather not go, and report back what they find.
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Vision-guided rigs
Machines that watch, measure and react — reading a camera on the device itself so decisions happen locally, with nothing sent off to the cloud.
// vision on-device
Bespoke automation cells
Small, self-contained machines that take one repetitive job off a person's hands and do it the same way every single time.
// automation bespoke
Got a robot in mind — or a job that needs one?
Tell us what it has to do. Whether it is a room full of learners or a single machine on a bench, we will design, build, program and support it, and you will own every part of it.
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