Photo Gallery: JPL demostrates how robots work and get around on Mars at Buena Vista Library in Burbank
The feeling of the robot rolling over the children made almost all of the laugh at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Benjamin Covarrubias, 7, and Clyde Jordan, 8, of Burbank, pretend to “use the force” to move a rolling JPL robot at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
A JPL robot used to demonstrate how robots roll around on Mars at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
To demonstrate how three-dimensional cameras on JPL robots work, the audience was instructed to make a triangle with their hands and look through it to see the different views with alternating eyes at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL with the Mars Curiosity Rover currently on Mars, gives an informative and entertaining presentation about robots at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
JPL’s Megan Richardson helps a robot roll over children at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
JPL’s Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer, talks about a how a Mars robot gets around on the surface of the planet to Ollie Kling, 9, and his brother Ozzie, 6, at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
A JPL demonstration robot rolls over children at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Parents and their children take pictures of their children with a robot rolling over them at the Buena Vista Library on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Megan Richardson, a mechanical engineer at JPL, presented an entertaining look at robots on Mars, on the road, and climbing over things. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)