QRIO is a small bipedal entertainment robot that embodies cutting edge artificial intelligence, communications, and technology.
Source: Photo © 2005 Sony Electronics Inc
Objects you'll see include:
Film artefacts
- Full-size Luke Skywalker landspeeder vehicle
- Rebel Blockade Runner (Tantive IV) model
- Millennium Falcon model
- Tarfful Wookiee costume
- Jedi costumes of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu
- Yoda (puppet)
- Sebulba Podracer model
- C-3PO and R2-D2
- male and female Tusken Raider costumes
- a selection of lightsaber props
- Imperial Star Destroyer and Invisible Hand models
- Snowtrooper costume
- Trade Federation battle droid and the “Naked” C-3PO
- Imperial AT-AT model
- Darth Vader costume and face mask
- Luke Skywalker’s prosthetic hand
Real world technologies
- NASA Personal Satellite Assistant
- iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner
- Segway RPM soccer robot
- Robosapien V2 toy robot
- Bock C-Leg® microprocessor
- Knee BION® implants muscle stimulators
- models of SpaceShipOne and the Moller Skycar
- models of proposed future spacecraft- Nuclear Pulse Engine, Bussard Ramjet Powered Spacecraft and Laser-Augmented Ramjet.
Sponsored by:
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination, presented by Bose Corporation, was developed by the Museum of Science, Boston and Lucasfilm Ltd. The exhibition is based upon work supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, USA. © 2009 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. This exhibition is indemnified by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.