Tommy Jr visits the University of Virginia School of Engineering during a show and tell for middle schoolers. Read all about 'Tommy Jr.' Car Goes to Robotics Camp.

"I think it's pretty cool," said 12-year-old Nell Ackerman of Charlottesville.

"We watched a movie about cars like these, but I didn't think I'd actually get to see one," she continued. "I think it's really amazing how the wheel actually turns while it goes, because it's like a ghost is driving it."

Ten-year old Daniel Johnson from Fredericksburg had said he wasn't interested in a robotics camp when his father suggested it. But by Friday he was asking for a home robotics kit, said his father, James Johnson.