Visitors flocked to the School of Computer Science’s ‘Robotics and the Natural World’ stand at RAF Waddington International Air Show.
3D-printed robot MARC was on hand to greet people and members of the public could try their hand at the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, robot football and flying quadrocopters – the latest sensation in aerial remote control aircraft.
MARC – Multi-Actuated Robotic Companion – whose design is supplied by the open source project InMoov, is one of three robots created to help scientists understand how more realistic long-term relationships might be developed between humans and androids.
People also had the opportunity to listen to the sound made by an insect that died 165 million years ago when dinosaurs still walked the earth and also learn how the extinct Jurassic bushcrickets communicated.
The event, which took place on 5th and 6th July, 2014, saw almost 150,000 people attend.
