Martin Smith
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Shows
The Great Egg Race (Contestant)
Robot Wars (Contestant then Judge)
Techno Games (Technical Expert)
Scrapheap Challenge (Technical Expert)
Mutant Machines (Co-host and Technical Expert)
Mechannibals (Contestant)
Sky News (Technical Expert)
Biography
London born Professor of Robotics. He built "Dreggster" an eggmobile for The Great Egg Race. In order to enter the Robot Olympics in Glasgow he hurriedly built a fast moving robot arm with a gripper to enter the Javelin Contest. He built "Cruella" to compete on Robot Wars. He and one of his students built a Robot night watchman which featured on Carol Vorderman's programme "What's the Big Idea?" She called the robot Robocop and the name stuck. Robocop was featured on Suzy Perry's programme "It'll Never Work". Martin was awarded the contract to build three presentation robots called "Cycler" for the environmental charity Waste Watch. His student did all the design and building work though.
Trivia
As a student he worked as a hospital porter and a supermarket shelf filler. Some years later he served as an Expert Witness in a small number of Old Bailey trials.
Web links
He has accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook and a YouTube channel.
