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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Robotics |
Founded | 2002 |
Founder | Antony Lovedale |
Headquarters | Chilcompton, Somerset, UK |
Products | Robots Robotics kits Robot components and accessories |
Website | www.active-robots.com |
Active Robots is a British company which sells robotics kits, components, accessories and parts.
Active Robots was founded in 2002 and incorporated in 2003 by Antony Lovedale and his wife, Maggie. [1] The company has over 3000 product lines.[ citation needed]
Active Robots acquired Total Robots in 2009.[ citation needed]
In 2013, the company created Active8 Robots, which provides robotic research technology to universities in the United Kingdom and Europe with the Baxter research robot and Nao humanoid robot. [2] [3] [4]
Active Robots has been involved in education in the United Kingdom for over 10 years.[ citation needed] They have coordinated with education providers such as EDT [5] to promote STEM enrichment.[ citation needed] Events such as "Lego Robot Wars" and "Robot Gladiators" have been held in partnership with local educators. [6] [7] Active Robots has been called the best provider of robotics in education by the blog Total Education. [8] [9] Part of their outreach work has focused on primary school children, particularly girls, introducing them to robotics and engineering at a young age.[ citation needed] Over 200 schools worldwide are using the Nao robot. [10] [11]
The Baxter robot is being used in university research and teaching in the UK. [12] [13] At least 15 universities in the UK have used the Baxter robot.[ citation needed]
Active Robots products have appeared on The Graham Norton Show, [14] [15] [16] Gadget Man, [17] [18] [19] The Gadget Show [20] and ITV's Daybreak. [21] [22]