Martian rovers. Driverless cars. Huggable food delivery bots. Whether assisting in data collection on faraway planets, zooming through city streets, or vacuuming kitchen floors, autonomous robotics have become a regular part of life here in our part of the galaxy.
Join Chabot Saturday, March 28th, for a fun, hands-on exploration of robotics, featuring OUSD’s annual Robotics Club Competition and opportunities to build your own functional bots with wires, circuits and Legos! Discover how rovers & robots help humans make scientific discoveries out in space, tinker with tech, and get up close & personal with real aerospace robots on display in our NASA Ames Visitor Center. You may even see some familiar androids roaming the exhibits!
TIME ACTIVITIES:
10:00am – 12:00pm | First Floor: Roaming Robots: Fritz – Chabot’s good friend Fritz the Robot will be roaming the First Floor of the Center this morning. If you see him, come say hello!
1:30pm – 4:30pm | First Floor: Roaming Robots: Curiosity Jr. – Local builder, Laura McKeegan, will be on the first floor of the Center with her remote-controlled Mars Rover replica, called “Curiosity Junior,” she built from 3D printed parts. Stop by to see it in action and to ask the builder about creating the rover!
Timing TBD| Studio 3: 4th Annual Oakland Robotics Invitational – The Oakland Unified School District and MSET 6165 Cuttlefish present the 4th Annual Oakland Robotics Competition. Elementary, middle, and high school robotics teams from across Oakland–and beyond– have gathered for a full-day celebration of robotics, including competitions of the FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST LEGO League.
ONGOING EXPERIENCES:
All Day | Rotunda: Hands-On Robotics with PlayWell TEKnologies! – Explore robotics and engineering through hands-on LEGO builds with Play-Well TEKnologies! Design and compete in customizable battletrack battles with fellow participants or try out and learn about creating walking robots.
All Day | 2nd Floor: Roaming Robots: Kiwibot – Catch me if you can! Kiwibot will be zooming around the 2nd floor of the Center all day. If you say hello, be sure to look closely – it might have some surprises in store for you.
All Day | Lab 2: Bay Area Amateur Droid Builders – Swing by Lab 2 to get up close & personal with some friendly robots and chat with the crafty engineers who built them!
$24 ADULTS, $19 KIDS, FREE FOR MEMBERS
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the activity organizer or venue as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
