Erik's trip to Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Baltimore June and July, 2014

Boston, June 19

June 19 Thursday Boston, Massachusetts
Day 2

We went to the Boston Science Museum
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Electricity show

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Erik building molecules

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Erik emerging from his trip in the simulator

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Arthur and Erik in front of the new MIT science building designed by Frank Gehry

Then we had a special tour of the MIT robotics lab, conducted by Computer Science Professor Bonnie Berger
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Erik emerging from his trip in the simulator
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Prof. Bonnie Berger shows one of the robots to Erik Luehrmann and Arthur Luehrmann

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A postdoc shows us the arm of a soft and flexible robot with "muscles" that extend and contract like human muscles

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large pontoon boat robot

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truck robots

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A tired Arthur and Erik wait for slow-poke Martha to catch up