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Project name Insect Robots
Organisation
Persons Leonel Moura
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Period 2008
URL http://www.leonelmoura.com/insect.html
Tags robotics, biology, aestethics, mechanics, sound, environment, insects, ai,
Text Based on the BEAM robotics (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics) the exhibition depicts a series of over 100 small autonomous robots with different morphologies and characteristics. A large installation shows 50 cricket-like small robots imprisoned in droplet glass shapes creating a kind of jungle sound environment. Other robots look like small trees or move around like insects. BEAM robotics is presented here as a new kind of (artificial) life.