Why the next great science museum will be built entirely around robots — and every robotics company will fight to be inside it
By Futurist Thomas Frey
San Francisco changed science education forever in 1969 when physicist Frank Oppenheimer opened the Exploratorium — a museum built on a radical idea for its time: don’t just display science behind glass, let people touch it, break it, and figure it out with their own hands. Six hundred hands-on exhibits later, it became the template that science museums around the world still copy today.
I believe we’re about to see that same moment happen again, except this time the subject won’t be light, sound, and perception. It’ll be robots. And the fight to be inside that museum won’t be a courtesy — it will be one of the most valuable pieces of brand real estate in the entire robotics industry.
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