Robots :
Beyond Disney
Disney films like Big Hero 6 and Wall-E have shown us different images of robots but Whateva are going to talk about some of our favourite robots and show you why you might want to ask mum or dad for tickets to the science museum on your next family outing .
Technology is part of our everyday lives - we tweet our days , snapchat our friends , and tell the internet what we had for lunch . The ‘ Robots ’ exhibition at the Science Museum gives us a look at how amazing technology can really be .
“ Remember in school when you learn to make a circuit with a battery and a lightbulb ? This is so much cooler .”
You can walk around and see how the last 500 years have given scientists the knowledge to build something so real out of metal . One visitor , Jessica Thresher said , “ remember in school when you learn to make a circuit with a battery and a lightbulb ? This is so much cooler .”
The exhibition takes you on journey through how the basic robot designs started and how they were programmed to move the way humans do . With the knowledge that young people have on technology , it ’ s not hard to imagine that soon robots will be even more realistic .
Eric
What would you name your robot ? The first robot in the UK was named Eric in the year 1928 . He disappeared one day - lost or thrown away but the science museum wanted to rebuild him .
He was rebuilt last year to look and move in the same way as the original one . He can stand and even give speeches . All the money used to recreate him came from people ’ s donations to their Kickstarter campaign .
KODOMOROID
We might all see robots as Baymax or Wall-E but one very realistic robot exists at the exhibition . The curator of the museum , Ben Russel , describes the Japanese android named Kodomoroid as “ one of the freakiest robots in this exhibition ”.
She was built in 2014 and her job was reading the news in Japan . Her appearance is one of the most eye-catching as she looks the most human , but her movements still look very robotic .