Felix: keeping in touch with school and friends
Friday, July 4th, 2025
Felix was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2024. He’s in Year 5 at primary school and loves learning, but he’s only able to physically attend school for about half the time.
We’ve lent him one of our friendly little AV1 BubbleBuster Project robots that sits at his desk at school when he’s not able to be there. It becomes his eyes, ears and voice in the classroom and, by controlling it remotely through a tablet computer, he can talk, learn and interact alongside his friends.
His mum Kat told us “It’s 100% been one of the best things we’ve discovered through the last ten months for both his mental health and his thirst for learning.”
Since the BubbleBusters Project started in 2020 we’ve connected over 100 families with schools across the UK, and we look forward to our little loan robots, made by No Isolation, being reused again and again to tackle isolation and help many more pupils in the future.
Find out more about our BubbleBusters project here, and become a regular giver to help us support more children with technology here.
Image above: (left) Felix with his AV1 robot, (right) Felix taking the robot to school for the first time.