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"Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination" Museum of Science, Boston
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Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination combines models and props from the Star Wars movies with real-world technologies including video interviews and Engineering Design Labs, where visitors build and test speeders and robots. |
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ROBOT THEATER:
Entering a large-scale model of the rusted-steel interior of a Jawa Sandcrawler, visitors meet C-3PO and (via video projection) real-world robotics engineer Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group, MIT Media Lab. The robot and the roboticist debate the merits of R2-D2 and how researchers try to duplicate traits such as mobility, perception, and cognition, while introducing some Star Wars robots. A tour of real world robotics follows.
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REAL WORLD STARSHIPS
Visitors will see actual vehicles and prototypes that researchers and engineers in our own world have developed. |
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