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Marbles Museum Outreach

Marbles Museum Outreach

Apr 11, 2026 · 1 min read

At the Marbles Backwards Science Fair, we ran a Powered Prosthetics table and showed visitors how wearable robots can improve quality of life. We brought a powered prosthetic leg and a prosthetic hand to try, along with a poster of wearable robots in daily life.

Read more in the LinkedIn post.

Our Powered Prosthetics table at the Marbles Backwards Science Fair
Our Powered Prosthetics table at the Marbles Backwards Science Fair

The Marbles Kids Museum atrium with the Backwards Science Fair sign
The Backwards Science Fair at Marbles Kids Museum

Our passionate young scientist look at a prosthetic hand demo while our teammate John explains it
Trying out the prosthetic hand demo

Our scientist Varun wearing a hip exoskeleton shows our poster to two children
Showing visitors a wearable robot and our poster

A selfie of the team and visitors at our table
The team at our table

Outreach Wearable Robotics
Xinyi Liu
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Xinyi Liu
Robotics Research Engineer