Apr 9, 2008 8:53 pm US/Eastern
Robot Exhibit Coming To Carnegie Science Center
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
Next year, the Carnegie Science Center will house the nation's largest permanent robotic exhibit.
The new venture will be call "RoboWorld".
Science Center Director Joanna Haas says it will be a new interactive space with three main areas of a robots road map.
"You could be arm wrestling with a robot in one part of the building and I could be in another part arm wrestling," said Haas. "We don't know it, but we're wrestling against each other."
This space will provide an absolute challenge to the imagination.
Visitors will be able to construct a functioning robot.
It will be set up to help visitors understand a robots ability to collect data, process the data, and put it to use.
RoboWorld opens in 2009 and will include a robot hall of fame including R2D2, and C3PO from Star Wars.
The actor who plays C3PO was on-hand at the Science Center today.
Anthony Daniels hopes the young unmolded minds will take notice of what's coming to the Science Center.
"A place like the Science Center here in Pittsburgh takes it beyond the interesting, beyond the entertaining," said Daniels. "It takes it to the world of inspirational fun."
Parts of the second floor of the Science Center will be blown out to make room for the robot area.
Over 6,000 square feet will be dedicated to just RoboWorld.
The project will cost $3.7 million.
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