A Place Called Home Comic Art & Literacy Expo, South Central LA

Always a pleasure visiting the wonderful people at A Place Called Home in South Central LA. This year we brought WALL-E for photo ops at their annual Comic Art & Literacy Expo. He made a lot of new friends!

WALL•E & EVE at OC Spiritual Center

Our favorite sweethearts were invited to be part of a Valentine themed sermon at OC Spiritual Center in Irvine. Dr Jim chatted with WALL•E, interviewed Mike, then Eve joined and the two were available for photos afterwards. 

WALL-E at UCLA

UCLA’s chapter of ASME invited Mike to give a presentation on building WALL-E. This was of particular interest to their X1 Robotics team, which is working to build their own WALL-E. Dozens of students attended the presentation in the campus’s newest lecture hall, the Mong Learning Center. Many students stayed after the presentation for one-on-one questions. Mike then did a partial tear-down of WALL-E to show the inner workings.

We were honored to be invited by Professor Dennis Hong to tour the Robotics and Mechanisms (RoMeLa) lab. We were blown away by various high tech robotic innovations created over the years by UCLA students. Including their newest full-sized humanoid robot ARTEMIS.

For details on their robots, check out Professor Hong’s latest TED Talk:

Dennis Hong: 7 new species of robot that jump, dance — and walk on water
ted.com


Thanks UCLA for inviting us out!