Robots Ready - R R R

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Robots are Ready - Rrr Rrr Rrr. Here is a robot we built - record a robot voice on your mobile phone and drop it into the robot's head to hear it speak back to you. Kids will love it. Try speaking into a fan during summer and you'll get a robotic voice - our daughter found this out for herself. 

A smaller version of the robot
Love robot?
Only used sellotape to bolt it together


Simple to build using seven innocent smoothies boxes for legs, a big box for the body. Two tissue boxes with some yoghurt pots on the end. A box on top with eyes made from bottom of squash bottles with glued tin foil on the inside. Just use a bit of sticky tape and slots in the box to add the arms.

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