Watch a cargo grabbing robotic arm in space

Watch NASA astronaut Chris Hadfield control the International Space Station’s robotic arm that grabs cargo.

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Who won a Picoh robot from Ohbot?

In Whizz Pop Bang: Robots Rock, we ran a competition to win a Picoh robot from Ohbot, and we’re so excited to be able to announce the winners! Read on to find out who won, and to read the brilliant robot jokes and science jokes they coded Picoh to read as their competition entries!

Picoh is a smart little robot that can speak, look around and interact with you when you connect it to a computer. Its LED matrix eyes can blink and change shape. It can smile and frown and it has lights and sound in its shoulders. Whatever Picoh does is all up to your programming skill!

Whizz Pop Bang readers were challenged to code Picoh to tell a joke or say what you love about science, and here are our winning entries! Each one wins their own programmable Picoh robot from ohbot.co.uk. Well done to Sophie, Toby and Ella – watch their winning wisecracks being told by Picoh in the videos below…

Joke by Sophie

How much does it cost a pirate to get his ears pierced?
A buck an ear!

Joke by Toby

What do you call a scientific dinosaur?
A testasaurus!

Joke by Ella

Why did the robot fail his exam?
Because he was a bit rusty!


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Watch a surgical robot peeling a grape

Robot surgeons allow surgeons to perform complex operations with more precision. Robot surgeons allow surgeons to perform complex operations with more precision. A real surgeon operates the robotic arms from a console.

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Watch a cheetah robot in action!

The gymnast of the robot world, MIT’s mini cheetah robot can execute a perfect 360° backflip! It can also walk the right way up or upside down and tackle bumpy terrain twice as fast as the average person’s walking speed.

Watch it in action here:

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Watch a robotic fish swim!

SoFi is a soft robotic fish that can swim around coral reefs, taking close-up videos of the real fish without disturbing them as a human diver would.

Watch SoFi swim here:

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