Just read that Professor Bruce Lacey has died. Fairport wrote a song about him, his robots appeared on the track, He played the role of George Harrison’s flute-playing gardener in Help. A one-off.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/20/farewell-bruce-lacey-multifaceted-artist-who-was-one-of-a-kind