Afrobots: Digital Transformations in Design

As part of the activities of the World Economic Forum, the Victoria and Albert Museum London in collaboration with Rwandan Museums presents ‘AfroBots’ - an exhibition of African Robotics. Rarely seen robotic samples from across the African continent are on display, including the AZIBOt, the Fundi-walker, a Bird Bot, a SpiderBot, and a DogBot.

These digital specimens are generously provided by leading African academic departments of science, robotics and engineering as well as informal ‘maker spaces’ for amateur inventors. Many of these prototypes incorporate animal characteristics, playing with the boundaries of the physical, the digital and the biological.

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