Ten thousand primary school pupils will have the opportunity to take part in free robotics workshops at Amazon’s fulfilment centres across the UK over the next two years, learning to program robots which use similar technology to that used to fulfil customer orders.

The workshops, created with CEF portfolio company Fire Tech, are designed to give children first-hand experience of how technology works in the real world and have been accredited by the British Science Association.

Fire Tech are also working with Amazon to embark on a road trip across the UK in 2020, bringing the robotics workshops to 150+ primary schools around the country.