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Does your museum have a robot tour guide...
...or some animatronics exhibits?
Perhaps there's a robotic puppet show....
...or some kinetic sculptures....?

If so - we'd love to hear about them...

The Creative Robotics Research Research Network (CRRN) is a new, UK based
EPSRC funded network for academic researchers, industry representatives
and visual and performance arts practitioners working in the areas of
robotics, mechatronics and animatronics.

The network will support the transfer of knowledge, expertise and
personnel between industry, academia and the arts, act as a showcase for
the work of network members, and encourage educational outreach
activities.

We are interested in building up a database of robotics related museum
exhibits (and featuring them  - hopefully - on our forthcoming website
(currently in a holding position at www.creativerobotics.org.uk)). As well
as a brief description of the exhibit, we'lll also be looking for images,
perghaps even movies, as well as fabricator details (for a fabricators
directory).

In advance of getting an online database established, I'd like to take
this opportunity for a quick straw poll of museums, primarily in the UK,
but also in Europe and throughout the rest of the world, that have
robotics related exhibits. Please erply to:

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Altyernatively, you may like to post a story to the RoboFesta-UK
eeducational robotics outreach network: www.robofesta-uk.org (you can also
link images in; just add <img src="http://your.image.url/picture.jpg""
alt="image description"/> in the story article...)

I look forward to hearing from you/reading your story postings...

regards
tony

Diary dates:

November 10th, 2004: the CRRN will be having its first network meeting in
conjunction with the RoboFesta-UK Annual Open Meeting, to be held at the
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Meeting theme: Creative Robotics.
Contact: [log in to unmask] for more information

April 13th, 2005: “Robotics, Mechatronics and Animatronics in the Creative
and Entertainment Industries and the Arts Symposium”, as part of the AISB
2005 Convention, Hatfield, UK. The call for papers is open throughout
September and October, 2004. Contact [log in to unmask] for more
information, or visit the symposium website, http://crrn.open.ac.uk/aisb/

CRRN mailing list:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/CREATIVE-ROBOTICS-NETWORK-INFO.html
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Tony Hirst
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Dept. of ICT, Faculty of Technology
Open University, Walton Hall,
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

Tel: +44 (0)19086 52789, m./SMS 07709 766223
Fax my email: 0871 8729323

http://robofesta.open.ac.uk/tony
http://www.robofesta-uk.org

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