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Robot runners
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Robot runners

The first ever half marathon allowing humanoid robots to run against humans was held in Beijing this weekend (April 2025). 12,000 humans ran the event alongside...

The CS4FN Easter Egg Hunt
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The CS4FN Easter Egg Hunt

Easter eggs can be chocolate but they are also hidden treasures to be found in games, websites, other software (and now even Lego sets). Especially for Easter we...

A Sea Hero Quest to understand our navigation skills
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

A Sea Hero Quest to understand our navigation skills

Video games can be a very successful way to do citizen science, getting ordinary people involved in research. Sea Hero Quest is an extremely successful example....

Robert Weitbrecht and his telecommunication device for the deaf
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Robert Weitbrecht and his telecommunication device for the deaf

Robert Weitbrecht was born deaf. He went on to become an award winning electronics scientist who invented the acoustic coupler (or modem) and a teletypewriter (or...

Super-plant supercapacitors
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Super-plant supercapacitors

There are a whole range of plants that have been called superfoods for their amazing claimed health benefits because of the nutrients they contain. But plants can...

The wrong trousers? Not any more!
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The wrong trousers? Not any more!

Inspired by the Wallace & Gromit film ‘The Wrong Trousers’, Johnathan Rossiter of the University of Bristol builds robotic trousers. We could all need them as we...

Music-making mates for Mortimer
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Music-making mates for Mortimer

Robots are cool. Fact. But can they keep you interested for more than a short time? Over months? Years even? Louis McCallum of Queen Mary University of London tells...

Philippa Gardner bringing law and order to a wild west
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Philippa Gardner bringing law and order to a wild west

Verified Trustworthy Software The computing world is a wild west, with bugs in software the norm, and malicious people and hostile countries making use of themContinue...

Soft squidgy robots
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Soft squidgy robots

Think of a robot and you probably think of something hard, metal, solid. Bang into one and it would hurt! But researchers are inventing soft robots, ones that are...
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