locations of work in in partnership with Gems Display Figures
Animatronics, Robotics and Props - latest at top
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13 refurbishment of my human sized Shadow Biped robot for the Science Museum London.
13 Special effect flying shoes for a Berlin show.
11 Creation of a breathing torso for The War Tunnels museum, Jersey.
11 Creation of a special effect table for Svein Flygari Johansen, a Nowegian artist.
11 Creation of an animatronic Nutcracker Doll for the English National Ballet's forthcoming production of 'The Nutcracker'.
11 creation of a pair of human sized animatronic legs using Mckibben type pneumatic muscles.
10 work on a Jim Whiting installation at the Shaubuden Festival in Dresden.
10 Flickering electronic Oil-Lamp head for a Yinka Shonibare figure exhibited in Jerusalem.
09 Control electronics and software for Jim Whiting's Boxer Shorts Bingo at the BAC and Royal Festival Hall, London
09 Puppeting system and show control of Jim Whiting's Deus ex Machina, West Fluegel Theatre, Leipzig
09 Gaze-Controls - animatronic neck posts for Gems articulated figures
09 Animatronic figure with moving head and writing hand for - The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust - Gems Studio.
09 Control electronics for Lulu Guinness's Cuckoo Bag, via Adam Wright
09 Animatronic Dinosaur with moving head, for a Newcastle upon Tyne museum
08 Two animatronic Dinosaurs with moving eyes, for a Newcastle upon Tyne museum
08 Facially expressive Animatronic head with silicone skin, with mouth and eyebrow movements, Nottingham Trent University
08 Shadow Electric Dextrous Hand - development work on Electrics and Electronics and Mechanical design of forearm
07 Animatronic Colonel Stephens, locomotive designer, for Kent & East Sussex Railway Museum, Tenterden - Gems Studio
06 Animatronic head with Gaze-Eyes for a Swedish museum - Gems Studio
05 Robotic human sized leg for research into powered prosthetics - Shadow Robot Co. for North Carolina A & T University
05 Sleeping Sailor for SS Great Britain - Gems Studio
04 Inhaler Girl with billowing cloth - Gems Studio
04 Animatronic Sir William Stanier - The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust - Gems Studio
04 Silicone skin talking and gesturing Dr Mirakel - Spirit of Salzburg, Salzburg - Gems Studio
04 Silicone skin talking and writing Butler - Spirit of Salzburg, Salzburg - Gems Studio
04 Animatronic Prisoner - REME - Gems Display Figures
04 Animatronic Sergeant writing - REME - Gems Display Figures
03 Animatronic Policeman - Police Federation - Gems Display Figures
03 Animatronic Crofter - the Hootananny Celtic Heritage Centre, Inverness - Gems Display Figures
03 Animatronic Grasshopper caught in a web - Anthony Bennet - Inatura, Museum of Natural History, Dornbirn, Austria
03 2 Animatronic Larvae with flickering lights inside - Anthony Bennet - Inatura, Museum of Natural History, Dornbirn, Austria
02 3 Cycler Presentation Robots for Waste Watch
02 Ambler - Biped Robot - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
02 Animatronic talking Celt - 'Setantii Tales of Thameside' museum Ashton-under-Lyne - Gems Display Figures
01 Hextor - Hexapod Robot - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
01 Alfred type Animatronic Head - Hugo refurbished as a Bishop - Wales - Gems Display Figures
01 Alfred Animatronic Head version 2, English Civil War figure - demonstration - Gems Display Figures
01 Cyclist - a Cycle-shop, Ireland - Gems Display Figures
00 TecFoot - Biped Robot - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
00 Snake Head - Speckled Band - Sherlock Holmes Museum, Baker St, London - Gems Display Figures
00 Breathing Statue with moving eyes - Vienna, Austria - Gems Display Figures
00 Flag Man - Hugo - to go with the Golfer, raised flag from out of the putting hole - Gems Display Figures
00 Golfer - Bob Hope, later Bill Cosby, playing golf - holes 15 foot putts with ease - demonstration - Gems Display Figures
00 3 Men with moving head and arm - German Buses - A touring information show for schools - Gems Display Figures
00 3 Ladies with moving heads- German Buses - A touring information show for schools - Gems Display Figures
00 2 Alfred type Animatronic Heads - Paris touring information show about diabetes - Gems Display Figures
00 2 Alfred type Animatronic Heads + animated apothecary - National Pharmacy Museum, Portugal - Gems Display Figures
00 Alfred - Animatronic Head - demonstration - Gems Display Figures
00 Animatronic Head - Horse World museum - Gems Display Figures
99 3 Gaze-Control Heads - Bodmin, Court Museum - Gems Display Figures
99 3 Hugo type Animatronic Heads - Bodmin, Court Museum - Gems Display Figures
99 TecArm - Robot Arm - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
99 Dickens - Silicone skin Hugo type Animatronic Head - demonstration - Gems Display Figures
98 New Invention - rebuild - Beauty and the Beast - British
98 New Invention - repair - Beauty and the Beast - Canadian
98 Hugo - Animatronic Head - Gems Display Figures
98 Large Scales - display
98 BigFoot - Biped Robot - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
98 Alex - Animatronic Head - mech-ai - Milford Instruments
98 Railway train for Oklahoma at the Royal National Theatre
98 Postman Pat Van - Postman Pat touring show
98 Cardboard Hugo - Animatronic Head -> Alex #43, - workshop on animatronics to The Royal National Theatre, London
97 Electronics for the Stumbling Machine - Simon Lewandowski
97 Barrel Man - London Pageant Dark-Ride - Gems Display Figures
97 Barrel Man - Dungeons of Windsor - Gems Display Figures
97 Breathing Sailors - for SS Great Britain - Gems Display Figures
97 Dead Lady on Coffin for Grusil(?) Cabinet Berlin (Grisly Show) - Gems Display Figures
96 7 heads with Moving Eyes - Berlin museum - Gems Display Figures
96 Gaze-Control Heads - Gems Display Figures
94 Target and Pig pantomime prop
94 Victoria - mobile robot
94? Camel-4 new base for #3 for British touring production of 'Joseph'
93 Elizabeth - mobile robot
93 Camel-3 electric for British touring production of 'Joseph'
92 Greenhill Flash Boxes
92 Shadow Digit interface
92 Pulser Boxes for a Jim Whiting show
92 Railway Engine for Pygmalion stage show
92 A Flying Magpie - The Thieving Magpie - Leeds Opera North
92 Camel-2 electric for American touring production of 'Joseph'
92 Nutcracker Doll - The Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of the Nutcracker
92 Pneumatics for the EuroDisney Paris, Sleeping-Beauty Pop-up Book
91 Flower - Chanel-4 opera 'Camera'
91 Petshop Boys' world tour 1991 stage props - water tank lighting
91 Petshop Boys' world tour 1991 stage props - torture box lighting
91 Petshop Boys' world tour 1991 stage props - clock lighting
91 special effect magic-bottles and cake for a Rohl Dahl play
91 Camel-1 mechanical for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, London Palladium
91 Large Electronic Components - display
91 Flickering Fire stage prop
91 Sparking lamp-post for Mr Bean stage show
91 Shadow Liberator mobile robot
91 Flight Simulator concept working model
90 Seed Birds - radio controlled animatronic birds, 'Into the Woods', the Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Rd London.
90 Control system for Lion and Unicorn sculpture - Thomas Scholtz
89/90 Control systems for Jim Whiting's shows, Cologne, Berlin, Warwick, London, Glasgow
88 Shadow Biped Walker
88 Robot Arm RX-500 prototype for Concorde Robotic
84 Zero-2 desktop mobile robot, IGR Ltd
82 Zeaker desktop mobile robot, Colne Robotics Ltd
Items above for countries and places outside Gt Britain
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Austria - Silicone skin talking and gesturing Dr Mirakel - Spirit of Salzburg, Salzburg
Silicone skin talking and writing Butler - Spirit of Salzburg, Salzburg
Larvae and Prey - Inatura, Museum of Natural History, Dornbirn.
Breathing Statue with moving eyes - Vienna, Austria
Belgium - Gaze Controls for animated heads on figures in museums
Canada - Gaze Controls for animated heads on figures in museums
France - 2 Alfred type animatronic heads - Paris touring information show about diabetes
- Pneumatics for the EuroDisney Paris, Sleeping-Beauty Pop-up Book
Germany - Special effect flying shoes for a dance show.
a pair of pneumatic powered animatronic legs
3 Ladies with moving heads - German Buses - touring information show for schools
3 Men with moving head and arm - German Buses - touring information show for schools
Dead Lady on Coffin for GruselKabinett Berlin (Grisly Show)
7 heads with moving eyes - Berlin museum
Ireland - Cyclist - a Cycle-shop, Ireland
Jersey - Gaze Control Heads and beathing torso, War Tunnels museum
Portugal - 2 Alfred type animatronic heads + animated apothecary
National Pharmacy Museum, Portugal
Singapore - Gaze Control Head - Lord Mountbatten, animated wax head in a museum
Sweden - Gaze Control Head for animated head on a figure in a museum
USA - Gaze Controls for animated heads on figures in museums
Camel-2 electric, for American touring production of 'Joseph'
Work in partnership with Gems Studio / Gems Display Figures
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Our animatronic figures can be seen in numerous locations including
Beachey Head Visitors Centre;
Bodmin Assize Court Museum;
Brecknock Museum;
Gruselkabinett, Berlin;
Hootananny Kolibh, Scotland;
Images of Singapore Museum, Singapore;
Jersey War Tunnels museum;
Josephine Tussaud Wax Works, USA;
National Pharmacy Museum, Lisbon;
Pioneers Museum, Singapore;
Police Federation Exhibition;
REME Museum of Technology, Arborfield garrison, Wokingham;
The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust, nr Ripley;
Sandwell Park Farm;
The Setanti Museum, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire;
Spirit of Salzburg Museum, Salzburg;
Wax Museum, Austria;
WPP Advertising.