--- title: Robots at Tate Britain description: Remote-controlled robots start roaming the Tate Britain tonight at 5 p.m. ET (10 p.m. GMT) canonical: https://time.com/3107640/tate-after-dark-robot-webcam/ author: Anita Hamilton article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-13T18:22:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:25.097Z og:title: Remote-Controlled Robots Let You Explore Tate Britain at Night Without Leaving Home og:description: Explore 500 years of art at the Tate Britain at night using your web browser og:url: https://time.com/3107640/tate-after-dark-robot-webcam/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac55c2da8be015dd/69869f60cd804d06ecccc562/0814_tate_ikprize_fullres-0535_2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5760 og:image:height: 3240 og:image:alt: 0814_tate_ikprize_fullres-0535_2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Remote-Controlled Robots Let You Explore Tate Britain at Night Without Leaving Home twitter:description: Explore 500 years of art at the Tate Britain at night using your web browser twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac55c2da8be015dd/69869f60cd804d06ecccc562/0814_tate_ikprize_fullres-0535_2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Remote-Controlled Robots Let You Explore Tate Britain at Night Without Leaving Home > Sponsored content. 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No worries, the venerable British museum is letting anyone with a (Chrome) browser roam its galleries without the pesky crowds or security guards dampening the experience. Just one catch: you can only do it in the dark. Starting tonight at 5 p.m. Eastern (10 p.m. London time), visitors around the globe can log on to the [Tate After Dark](http://afterdark.tate.org.uk/) website and explore the Tate Britain’s collection using internet-controlled robots. (Think Roomba with a webcam at eye level). The four robots — which were designed and engineered by the London-based consultants [The Workers](http://theworkers.net/) with help from space research firm [RAL Space](http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ralspace/default.aspx) — let remote users explore five centuries worth of British art, ranging from Elizabethan portraiture to video works by Gilbert & George, currently on display. “It’s about getting lost in the museum,” says Tommaso Lanza, who co-created the five-night interactive event, which runs through Sunday. “It’s also about fun.” Each of the four robots has seven sonar sensors on board, an off-the-shelf webcam and a hardware encoder. The bots have no sense of direction, so it will be up to the users to navigate the dimly-lit space. “The whole point is that you control it,” using nothing but the arrow keys on your keyboard, says Lanza. 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