Robert and William with their Robot (Ro-Bert) - Credit: William Mumford A family from Great Staughton managed to build a robot during the long hours of lockdown. Robert Mumford, aged eight, his three-year-old brother Christian and dad William designed and built the robot to scare off birds on their farm. William, who owns Agden Green Farm, says the robot was a six- week Christmas lockdown project. He said: “Being unable to go anywhere over Christmas, my son and I have built a field scale pigeon scaring robot. “Its mode of operation is very simple – we have a series of waypoints in the field and every day it wakes up moves to the next waypoint and wiggles it gun all day then goes to sleep at night, it actually works really well.