On April 11th I dropped by this year’s Robot Block Party at the Stanford Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab. Despite the clouds, the rain held off, which was great news for the kids running around chasing the robots. Probably pretty good for the robots too!

Robots live here!

Just as last year, there were military robots, consumer robots, and robots built out of Legos and various other bits and pieces by robot enthusiasts.

PRD from Willow Garage says hello.

There were robots from Nasa and SRI, robots doing push-ups, robots dancing to ‘Thriller‘, movie-making robots and cars that drive themselves.

Nao gets down with his bad self.

Robots. There’s an app for that!

Knitting at the Robot Block Party. Awesome.

Although there were no knitting robots present, one of the folks sitting near the Tech Museum display was knitting and attracting the interest of her fellow booth-manners.

Robots and knitting. Sounds like a great combination, don’t you think?