Beginning Sept. 29, robots are taking over The Children's Museum of Indianapolis! Robots + Us, the newest exhibit opening at the museum, allows children and their families to interact with and learn about real robots through interactive play and discovery.
Robots + Us is an immersive exhibit that focuses on the making of machines and how our relationships with those machines may help us, change us and teach us about ourselves. Children and their families can find out how long robots have been helping us create everyday objects, test robots of all shapes and sizes, find out how robots "learn," see them react to changes in their environment and discover how some amazing artificial devices have changed people's lives.
Exhibit visitors can test their skills by playing chess against a computer, attempt to assemble a puzzle faster than a robotic arm, guide light sensitive robots through an obstacle course and trick a face-recognition machine.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to build their own version of a robot "jitterbug" from simple materials such as foam, pipe cleaners, paper clips, rubber bands and a battery while exploring how the physics of bodies and environments shape behavior. Despite the common makeup of the jitterbugs, no two will behave exactly alike and visitors are encouraged to use their creativity to make their jitterbug as fun and imaginative as they choose.
Produced by the Science Museum of Minnesota and made possible with funds provided by the National Science Foundation, Robots + Us will open at The Children's Museum on Sept. 29 and run through April 27, 2008. -- www.childrensmuseum.org
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