Julia Reed

Her role on the show was as the pit reporter who would speak to contestants about their robots before and after battles.

Reed was also a reporter in the second series of the Robot Wars spin-off Techno Games in 2001.

Reed also hosted the interactive video games series Blam!!!

in 2000, the Sky One game show Hi-Score in 2001, and the Channel 4 science programme SuperHuman in 2004.

Reed is a former Hampshire Under-18 fencing champion and she holds a first-class degree in psychology.