24 August 2026 
Building a Face: From an InMoov Robot Head to an Inclusive Social Robotics Platform
What the humanoid robot could look like! Not my actual workshop (or robot) but generated by Gemini. I have...
Designing a Future Where Everyone Can Shape Robotics
A few weeks ago, while sitting in a coffee shop in Norwich, I found myself thinking about how all...
21 July 2026
The Happy Accidents Model of Inclusive Design
For one of the Summer School Talks, I created this simple flowchart (with a little help from AI) for...
12 June 2026
Teaching a Line-Following Robot to Read ‘Barcodes’
One of the most enjoyable parts of robotics is discovering how much intelligence you can create using very simple...
18 May 2026
RixBot Update (May 2026)
The RixBot has had an update, both in terms of hardware (improved circuit board), software (much improved code) and...
Inclusive Design
(Update on RixTalk Audible Ruler) Last week, the audible ruler was given a brief test by one of our...
27 January 2026
RixBot Update
Work has been ongoing for a new version of the RixBot throughout December, mostly looking for ways of improving...
5 January 2026
Robot Programming Made Simple (Update)
The robot buggy was tested at Rix Inclusive Research to see how well it worked (in principle) and although...
24 November 2025
Robot Programming made Simple
We are developing a simple, programmable robot buggy designed to make robotics accessible to a much wider audience. The...
13 November 2025
RixTalk Update
The new version (technically the next iteration, as it is far from ‘finished’) of the talking ruler is almost...
22 July 2025
Wheelchair users Experience VR
We ran our first VR workshop specifically for wheelchair users this week, giving two of our co-researchers a taste...
21 July 2025
New RixTalk Talking Ruler
After creating the initial prototype of the talking ruler and considering some of the early feedback given to me...
15 July 2025
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