SAN FRANCISCO — Sidney Chen and his daughter, Elizabeth, were watching a robot designed by kids from local high schools throw Frisbees through a wooden goal. A little bit earlier, Cathy Markhefka’s children got to play with Linkbot, a robot that you can drive by just tilting a remote control forward and back or side to side. And Robert Liebsch’s son, Thomas, was being chased by a small robot programmed to follow the green ball he was holding.
“It’s pretty awesome,” Liebsch said.
He and the other parents and their kids were just some of the many Bay Area residents who got a close-up look at locally designed cutting-edge robots on Saturday at AT&T Park. They were among the 30,000 attendees of Discovery Days, the closing event of the third annual Bay Area Science Festival.
The robots certainly weren’t the only attraction at Saturday’s event, which featured more than 150 exhibitors. Inside the ballpark, kids could do everything from touch a dissected squid to build a microscope out of Legos to view a 3D printer in action.
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