IT was an early exit for Oxfordshire's latest machine to appear on the BBC show Robot Wars.

Engineers Sean Cleary, Laurence De Bruxelles, Jon Elmer and Dominique Andreson created their own fighting bot Sweeney Todd for the cult programme.

But despite the best efforts of the quartet, all from the Science and Technology Facilities Council in Didcot, their creation was not successful after going out in the round.

Competing against three other robots, it was eliminated alongside fellow bot Kan-Opener.