People
Many of the people on Techno Games also worked on Robot Wars. Philippa Forrester became the host presenter, the technical presenters and judges were Noel Sharkey and Martin Smith were also judges on Robot Wars, and Simon Scott had built the robot Razer. The more memorable robots included Skeletron, a rope climbing robot; Phoebius, a solar powered robot; and Cycler, a presentation robot, that went on to visit thousands of schools. Skeletron, the gas powered natural rope climber, so impressed the NESTA award judges that his builders Matt and Ray Tait won an all expenses paid trip to NASA in Florida.
Some of the teams that took part had also taken part in Robot Wars, although the machines were modified to remove weapons (Some exceptions were made for objects like scoops and wedges), and to apply different bodywork, thus going under the guise of a different robot.
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