ROBOTS battled it out in a series of challenges and races in a schoolboy version of Robot Wars.

Children and parents have spent three weeks building robots to take part in a version of the BBC TV show at Langley Park School for Boys, Beckenham, on Saturday.

Forty families of Year 7 boys from Langley Park and other nearby primary schools were at the event.

Entrants were provided with kits and other resources by the school in workshops on May 21.

The event was supported by Year 9 and Year 10 boys and supervised by head of design technology Julie Norton.

She said: "The aim is to get the parents to work with their children on something different, to raise the profile of design technology and just to have fun."