Thursday, September 4, 2008

John and the Robot at Clemson Family Fest

This was the second year for Clemson Family Festival at the school. It's for faculty and staff and families. They have local businesses, libraries, day cares, magicians, singers, fire trucks, etc. The stand with the longest line was the balloon animal man!

John's favorite thing was the robot that could throw and catch a big blue ball. He must have watched it for a total of 20 minutes. The video is the last bit, when he was finally brave enough to want to interact with it. It was controlled by two "robot geeks" (seen sitting at the white table in the back of one shot). The kids really wanted to play with the robots, but the two controllers - one teenager, one 20-something - didn't quite have the right timing and sense of interacting.

But it was fun to watch John so enthralled. Near the very end of the video, when Tony picks him up, watch how his head whips around so that he can keep an eye on the robot!

To everyone who is not a rabid John fan, this video may be a little long for you...

3 comments:

Pa said...

I just couldn't stand to see such a great video with no comments!
Too bad John couldn't get the robot to play!

Juliet said...

Well, he did that one time at the very end...
That was about the extent of the interaction the whole time we were there. Like I said, the operators were not really that tuned in to "play."

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