Robo Expo @ Chabot
$24 Adults, $19 Kids, FREE for Members
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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!
10:00am-4:00pm | Lab 1
Stand Up for Science! Banner-Making Lab
Join us in Lab 1 to make your own pins and banners in defense of science!
Display your posters at 11 o’clock in the Stand Up for Science march. Meet on the 2nd floor by the ASTRA rocket for a demonstration across the Center!
1:00pm – 2:00pm | Studio 2
Gallery Concert with Pale Blü Dot
Merging art and science, Pale Blü Dot shares her love of astronomy through experimental music. Join her to explore the mysteries of the universe through this electronic performance.
Based in San Francisco, Pale Blü Dot brings the stars to the city through art and education while advocating for dark sky access and raising awareness about light pollution.
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!
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: Robot.com
Catch me if you can! Kiwi 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!
All day | Mezzanine
Build It. Code It. Watch It GO!
Build your own bots using VEX IQ and LEGO SPIKE kits, race super cars, spin a Ferris wheel, and learn to code with Synapse Robotics!
All Day | Classroom 1
Build-A-Bot with The Cheesy Chips
Join The Cheesy Chips – a high school FIRST Robotics Team – for an interactive demo in Classroom 1! Get a chance to drive bots created by the team and build your own.
All Day| 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.
All Day | Classroom 3-4
The Pits: Behind-The-Scenes with OUSD Robotics
This is the home base for each high school robotics team competing in the FIRST Tech Challenge at the Oakland Robotics Invitational @ Robo Expo. Stop by to get a behind-the-scenes look at high school robotics teams in action as they strategize, tinker, and improve robots.
