New Zealands first Dalek building page...see how it was done!

PICAXE controller chips - discover how these amazing programmable chips could be used in your robot!

Connect a PICAXE to a Casio FX-9750g graphics calculator. Add sensors and collect the data in science and mathematics, or use the calculator as a remote control

Puke Ariki 'Fresh out of the Box' PICAXE Haiku Robots at the Puke Ariki art exhibition

Detailed robot plans for ALIS from Jared Broad

Cyber Mice - build Mighty Mouse, Cybot's PICAXE cousin and 8 legs away from evolving into a Cyber Spider!

Simple sensors - read our Sensors from voltage dividers article so your robot can sense the outside world

Electronics Manual for Science, Maths and Art. Year 9 to Year 13 introductory PICAXE manual with simple circuits to make and example PICAXE codes.

RIGEL data and games link Connect yourself to 3D virtual worlds with the Real World Interactive Games and Electronics Link.

"Robotics is a use of a wide range of technologies. In order to build a robot you must also build power supplies, motors and gears for motion, sensors and if wanted design Artificial Intelligence.

The term robot originates from the Czech word robota, meaning "compulsory labour." It was first used in the 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by the Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. The word robot has been used since to refer to a machine that performs work to assist people or work that humans find difficult or undesirable. The concept of automated machines dates to antiquity with myths of mechanical beings brought to life. Automata, or manlike machines, also appeared in the clockwork figures of medieval churches, and 18th-century watchmakers were famous for their clever mechanical creatures. The robots that you and I know today have only been around for the last 30 years"