Jason Bradbury

I’ve been waiting for this week to arrive for months - the official launch of my second book, Atomic Swarm. I’m starting off with a bunch of interviews with blogs and newspapers - then later in the week I’m appearing on The Wright Stuff (Five) and Sky News. But I’m most excited about my one-hour half-term show at London’s South Bank Centre and appearances in Waterstones in shopping centres outside London (check ‘See Dot Robot Live’). MechRC and Robonova (above) are both psyched too - as they get to dance in public! Follow my exploits all week on Twitter.

*** MEET JASON THIS HALF-TERM -  18th, 19th & 20th FEBRUARY ***

Tickets are selling fast for my Dot Robot Roadshow event at London’s South Bank Centre (18th Feb) this half term. For more info and to buy tickets to the one-hour show featuring a live robot race & readings from my new children’s book click here.

And there are more books signings during half-term (18th, 19th, 20th Feb) at Waterstones in Milton Keynes, Basingstoke, Reading & Thurrock

All the times and dates you need to know are here.

Yep, that’s me, threading a needle, using DaVinci, one of the world’s most advanced surgical robots. With Suzi at the helm we filmed a game of Operation with DaVinci, then I had a go. ‘I’ll start you on something easy,’ said Omar, DaVinci’s surgeon operator. ‘You can thread a needle!’. I asked the photographer to include a five pence piece, so you can see just how small DaVinci’s hands are. During the week we filmed for The Gadget Show, DaVinci & Omar performed five operations on real people!

I want to be a pupil at Bacons College in Rotherhithe! What an awesome school. From the moment I arrived, the sense of fun and enthusiasm from teachers and pupils (and their ace librarian) hit me like a tractor beam. As with so many of the schools I’ve visited with Dot Robot, the children were mad for the tech and the reading. Thanks for having me (Robonova says ‘Hi!’)

Pictured with the kids, are some of the Dot Robot Roadshow robots: Rovio (Who I operate via the net with my iPhone), Robonova (who has just finished his Tai Chi routine) and Punk (from my book)

Another school, another Dot Robot Roadshow. As you can see from the bottom picture, it was mayhem during the robot race at Walworth - I even got some stern looks from the teachers for being a bad influence (^_^) Big hello to all of the kids (and teachers!) from Walworth Academy who made me and the robots feel very welcome.

I’ve got a thing for ‘Tips’ books. I bought this one when I was visiting MIT, in Boston. Check out more books from My Library.

I’ve just been to Martha’s Vineyard, where the movie Jaws was filmed. You can see a video of me ’shark hunting’ filed under Dot.Robot. This book, The Swarm is a bit like Jaws, but, as the name suggests, the monsters of the deep in this oceanic thriller move in packs. The book is also a warning, a very convincing projection for a number of ways the natural world might react to what we’re all doing to it. It’s a doorstop of a novel, but it’s an easy and exhilarating read.

A collection of twelve editions of Commando, a comic book I loved as a boy.