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SketchActivities — Robots That Make Something
Most event robots greet, chat or hand out drinks. Ours draw, write and build — your guests leave holding what the machine made for them.
Not a Robot That Talks
Attention is easy. Something they keep is harder.
Hire a robot for a stand and you usually get conversation. It greets people, answers questions, poses for a selfie. Good for footfall, but nothing leaves with the visitor and nothing carries your brand out of the hall.
Ours produce. A portrait drawn from a guest's photo. An illustration made from something they typed. A badge with their name on it. A wish written by hand. A piece of a mosaic the whole room assembles by the end of the day.
Every mode ends with paper in someone's hand, and every layout carries your branding.
Ours produce. A portrait drawn from a guest's photo. An illustration made from something they typed. A badge with their name on it. A wish written by hand. A piece of a mosaic the whole room assembles by the end of the day.
Every mode ends with paper in someone's hand, and every layout carries your branding.
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Three Ways It Creates
From a photo
A guest is photographed, the software turns it into a line sketch, the robot draws it.
From a prompt
No photo needed. A guest types an idea — a retro car, a cat in a crown, their dream house — and the robot draws that instead.
From a test
A few questions, and the answers become a personalised character. The questions, the humour and the result are written around your brand, not ours.
What It Runs
The software behind it is ours — SketchActivities — so a campaign needing a mechanic that isn't on this list gets it built rather than declined.
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Portrait Sketches
The original mechanic and the easiest to explain. A guest's photo becomes a drawn portrait with their name on it. -
Prompt Drawings
Guests describe what they want and get it drawn. No photo, no queue for the camera, and
nobody worrying about how they look. -
Personalised Badges
Name, portrait or prompt drawing on the front. On the back, your conference schedule, a QR code, a floor map or sponsor branding — printed in advance, drawn on the day. -
Written Cards
The robot writes by hand in five fonts. Wishes for a wall, anonymous feedback to your
team, fortunes, horoscopes. Whatever the text, it arrives on a card the guest keeps. -
Colouring Pages
A guest describes a picture, the robot draws the outline, they colour it in themselves.
A5, A4 and smaller. Family days, children's zones, festivals. -
Collaborative Mosaic
One large image split into numbered pieces. The robot draws them in sequence, guests
colour their own, and the wall fills up as the day goes. By the close you have a single
branded art object built by everyone in the room.
Pricing
Robot activations are priced per event. What moves the number is the mechanic, how many hours you need us on site, and how many machines the footfall calls for.
Send us your stand size, your dates and what you'd like guests taking home, and we'll come back with a quote.
Send us your stand size, your dates and what you'd like guests taking home, and we'll come back with a quote.
Tell us about your event
Robot activations at real events
Robot Hire for Events Across the UK
What it is
An interactive robot activation where the machine produces something physical. Guests send a photo, a prompt or a message, and the robot draws or writes it while they watch. Portraits, badges, illustrations, wish cards, colouring pages and collaborative mosaics.
How it's different
Most event robots are built around conversation — they greet, answer questions and pose for photos. Useful for attention, but nothing leaves with the visitor. This one produces a branded object at the end of every interaction, which is what makes people stop, wait and come back.
How it's different
Most event robots are built around conversation — they greet, answer questions and pose for photos. Useful for attention, but nothing leaves with the visitor. This one produces a branded object at the end of every interaction, which is what makes people stop, wait and come back.
How it works on the day
Guests don't queue at a tablet. A QR code at the stand opens a short form on their own phone — photo, prompt or message, sent from wherever they're standing. Requests go into a queue and out to whichever robot is free, so a busy stand gets more machines rather than a longer wait.
Your branding sits in the layout itself — logo, frame, event name, colours — set into the template before the day rather than stamped on afterwards.
Formats run from 10 x 15 cm up to A4.
Your branding sits in the layout itself — logo, frame, event name, colours — set into the template before the day rather than stamped on afterwards.
Formats run from 10 x 15 cm up to A4.
Where it fits
Exhibition stands, brand activations, product launches, conferences, family days, festivals, weddings and private parties. The mechanic changes with the audience; the setup doesn't.
Built on our own software
SketchActivities is our platform, which means a campaign needing something unusual gets it built rather than declined
Where we work
Based in North Yorkshire, delivering across the UK — Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Newcastle and London, with travel quoted alongside the booking..
Built on our own software
SketchActivities is our platform, which means a campaign needing something unusual gets it built rather than declined
Where we work
Based in North Yorkshire, delivering across the UK — Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Newcastle and London, with travel quoted alongside the booking..
Book SketchActivities Today
Send us your event and what you'd like guests taking home, and we'll come back with a proposal.
FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions)
Those are usually humanoid robots that talk, greet people or carry drinks. Ours makes
something physical — a drawing, a badge, a written card — that your visitor takes away
with your branding on it.
something physical — a drawing, a badge, a written card — that your visitor takes away
with your branding on it.
From 50 an hour on a single robot, and more when we run several — a piece takes 30 to 60 seconds on average, depending on the mechanic. For high-footfall stands we add machines rather than let the queue build, so the number scales with the event rather than capping it.
From 2 x 2 m, more if we're running several machines, plus a standard 13A socket and
internet at the venue. The artwork is generated as guests request it, so a connection is
needed — we check what the venue provides in advance.
internet at the venue. The artwork is generated as guests request it, so a connection is
needed — we check what the venue provides in advance.
Yes. A QR code at the stand opens the menu on their phone — they send the photo or the text from where they are, rather than crowding a tablet.
Yes. The software is ours, so we're not limited to someone else's feature list. Tell us
what you want guests doing and we'll work out how the robot delivers it.
what you want guests doing and we'll work out how the robot delivers it.
10 x 15 cm and 15 x 20 cm as standard, portrait or landscape, plus custom templates up to A4. Five fonts, with English, Russian and Ukrainian supported.
It depends on the mechanic, the hours and how many machines you need. Send us your stand size and dates and we'll come back with a price.
The earlier the better if we're building a custom mechanic — that gets designed and
tested before the event, not on it.
tested before the event, not on it.
Tell us about your event
Your dates, your venue and what you'd like guests taking home. We'll come back with options and a price.
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