Hello, I'm Dougal Shaw and you're listening to Business Daily Meets on the BBC World Service.

Today I've come to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, to meet an entrepreneur

who has invented an educational robot for children which likes to dance.

The sort of quantum that we have in Scotland is often different to what you'd get in London or especially across in the States.

I was keen to bootstrap in the beginning a little bit and do the crowdfund just to show that it would work.

Dr Sandy Enoch set up the company Robotical in 2016 after completing a PhD in robotics at Edinburgh University.

His walking robot called Marty was originally designed to engage children and teach them about coding.

It can play football and apparently can use sensors to avoid falling off tables too.

Uh-oh.

How does fall protection work?

So basically Marti's full of sensors and there's an accelerometer in there, which is measuring acceleration and tilt. And if Marty's sort of getting close to fall over, it'll deactivate.

So yeah, hopefully there's not Marty's just face planting all over the place.

Marty's also just had a major upgrade to bring him up to date with developments in artificial

intelligence.

The company exports its robots to schools around the world, including North and South America,

Europe, Africa and Asia.

But this robot's roots are... including North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

But this robot's roots are here in Edinburgh. We are in Leith in the north of the city,

an area that used to be known as a slightly rough part of town,

partly thanks to the 90s hit film train spotting.

Though today it's a bit more trendy and the city's new tram network passes right through it.

All tickets, smart counts and then tickets must be purchased validated or activated before boarding the tram.

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