Real robots

Is the ultimate robot magazine, which gives you up to the minute robot news reviews plus the latest in cutting edge cyber science. With every issue you'll find great articles on how robots are made and worked, real life robots in action, well known celebrity robots like Terminator and Robocop and battling robots with the experience and advice from the stars of Robot Wars. With every issue you'll receive some real robot parts so you can start building Cybot your very own intelligent robot.

Cybot Step By Step gives a clear and complete guide to assembling your Cybot with step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions. Cybot will soon take shape then allowing you to do great projects and tasks. With the help of your imagination you will be able to programme Cybot from your PC.

Cyber Science It's all very well enjoying robots and the amazing things that they do, but what we want to learn about is how on earth they do it! Cyber Science investigates the inner workings of robots from all walks of life

Workshop this is the story of the battling bots like Cassius, Razer and Chaos 2 and how they came to victory in robot wars. You could also take up Rex's Robot Challenge. Cassius's creator Rex Garrod will show you how to make your own battling robot and teach you how robots work.

Robostars From Terminator to Robocop there have been some mega robot stars and this part of the magazine gives you the low-down on all your favourites from the cinema, television and science fiction.

Robots in Action There are some incredibly brave robots about, disarming bombs exploring the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl and crawling around the icy wastes of the Antarctic collecting bits of fallen meteorites. They'll tell you all about them and other robots in space and underwater.

Network Have a go on the baffling brainteasers, update you on the cool machines making the news, and bring you the best robot pictures around.

Cybot can follow a follow a black line, avoid objects, follow you, detect light, move a away from it, move towards it, all sorts of things, but will an extra board you will actually be able to program Cybot yourself. Cybot started off off as a lab prototype. It was originaly called the drawf ; there was seven of them. The Team then starded making the drawf to do loads more things. Eventualy Cybot was created and can do loads of cool things. But the most important thing is Cybot can be used with and most importantly without a romote control.

As Cybot grows you will learn how he works so therefore will be able to fix if any thing should go wrong. Cybot will have an incredible amount of functions, which can be used with a remote control but most importantly without a remote control, and as you saw on the video he can negotiate a black line, follow you, react to light and avoid danger.

You probably allready know but at issue 4 you Cybot will be going forward. When you test it it will go backwards because the magazine told us to put the motors in the wrong way so you might as well swap the motors now. Also when you test it Cybot will go froward for about 5 metres and then make a bit of a turn. Don't worry this is perfectly normal for cybot to do. When you get your sensors in it will not do it.

The issue have been rolling in for the people who live in N.Ireland and now the pile of them is about an 3 centimentres think and it is only at issue 10. It is great to have a great big collection to look back on the problem was the binder was 9.99 untill real robots noticed this and now it is down to 4.99. I'm

Yes by issue 8 Cybot start to have a bit of control over itself using its light sensors for those people who live in N.Ireland and me already know how good it is though when I used mine for ages my battery that powers the boards sensors and all that was nearly dun because it was an old one so it was only following it at about 2 metres it pottencial is about 7-8 metres which is pritty good.

Are you wondering what to do with the foam bits in issue 7 then look no longer simply just push them into the holes where the utrazonic sensors go

On a small proportion of the motor tester boards supplied with issue 4, the two holes on the board don't line up exactly with the holes on the chassis. There is no problem with the motor power board.

To check the alignment, fit the motor power board as shown in the magazine and then line up and press the seven pins on the tester board into the black socket on to the motor power board. If the holes don't line up, don't try and screw the board to the chassis. Simply fit the four AA batteries and start your test run.

It gets better and better! We are now reducing the price in Northern Ireland from £4.99 to £3.99 from part 6, not part 7 as we originally said.

Well, guys, well done for raising the issue because the company has decided to reduce the price of the Northern Ireland magazine from £4.99 to £3.99 from part 7 (we can't do it before, sorry, the magazines are already on their way to the printers....). Result!