March 1 to 9, 2008, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

For Spring Break, it’s circus time at the Science Centre! Step right up for an incredible robo-fest featuring amazing technology, games and performances!

Admire the skills and powers of a troupe of exceptional robots, trained by fearless master roboticists. Never before have you seen such robotically amazing performances! Acrobats, ventriloquists and contortionists ... our intelligent machines will introduce you to a whole new world of wonders. Goosebumps guaranteed! Let the show begin!

Featured attractions:

• Presentations
• Arcade
• Demonstrations
• Shows
• Workshops …. and lots more!

Kiki, the Chimpanzee

Meet Kiki, the head guard of our circus. He looks very gentle, but he can be quite fearsome if he or his friends are threatened in any way. He can express four separate emotions, and react to his environment using his sensors.

Kiki is an animatronic, an amalgam of “animation” and “electronic” – in other words, an automated machine full of electronic components activated by remote control. Animatronics are widely used in films: the shark in Jaws, E.T. and the Gremlins were all animatronics.