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Slideshow: The Robot Won't Bite You, Dear

Not all robots look and act like the Terminator. The idea behind billed as a robot talent show, is to show kids of all ages the softer side of bots. Michelle Delio reports from New York.
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Tribblation, by Josh Lifton, Michael Broxton and Joseph Paradiso, is a robot with sensory capabilities similar to those of a biological skin.Courtesy of Douglas Repetto

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Small Work for Robot and Insects, by Andy Gracie, Brian Lee Dae Yung and Gary Burns, is an attempt to establish communication between a colony of insects and a robot.

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ShivaBot, by Kyle Lapidus, Jonathan Huggins and Clay Lacefield, plays electronic drums, bells, chimes and cymbals. ShivaBot is part of LEMUR, short for League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, a band of robotic instruments that won the ArtBots' People's Choice award.

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Robots Like H2O: Photosynthesis Perpetual Motion Machine is by Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine.

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BabyBott by Stefan Prosky coos when cuddled. Its talent: making people take care of it.

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Drawing Machine, by Fernando Orellana, listens to its environment using a series of microphones installed around the gallery. What it hears is interpreted by the machine's software and used as the primary driver, or inspiration, to make complex, non-representational drawings.

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