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Each pod has a live mouse inside. As the mouse moves around, the floor tilts under its weight, triggering the pod to move in that direction.
A trio of ArtSBots (Art Symbiotic roBots) do their best to create their own drawings.
The Bionic Log, a log with robotic legs, moves in an artificial forest-like environment. It was created by William Tremblay of Boston.
The Self Preservation Machine, complete with punching gloves and cowboy boots, has a hatch in back where children can climb in and control the limbs.
The ArtSBots are the creation of Leonel Moura, of Lisbon, Portugal, who said his robots' art resembles that of Jackson Pollock.
Large white balloons, also known as "Thoughts go by air," are the brainchild of Machine Cent'red Humanz, an art group from Belgium. Each trio of balloons has a motion sensor at the bottom that triggers its propeller to move away when it senses a nearby object.
GuitarBot and assorted ModBots make up this robotic orchestra that can perform up to 20 minutes of music written by Joshua Fried (seated).
Drawbot was one of the few art exhibits that invited viewers not only to participate, but to construct a robot of their own. Jonah Brucker-Cohen, of Dublin, Ireland, is the creator of Drawbot, which is based on a simple tripod design with three pens; the tripods hobble about creating various colorful sketches.
Artist Aaron Arendt of Los Angeles constructed the Self Preservation Machine in 2001.
Remo Campopiano adjusts one of his Three Blind Mice, a collection of three mice contained within small mobile pods. Campopiano and two others, Guy Marsden and Jonathan Schull, collaborated to construct the project.
The Recycle Robot takes boxes and flattens them, and then can restore them for use later on. Dan Paluska of Cambridge, Massachusetts, said his robot represents a utopian, more ecological future.
Ralf Schreiber's Living Particles is something of an electronic wind chime, taking light received by solar panels and converting them into various audible tones. He is from Cologne, Germany.
Bruce Shapiro of Minneapolis named his piece Sisyphus, after the mortal condemned by the Greek gods to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity, only to have it roll down again. It features a large marble that moves along a plate of sand, creating something of a Zen garden. Beneath the plate of sand lies a magnet attached to a robotic arm, which moves about in a geometric pattern, forcing the ball to move along with it, making indentations in the sand.
Built by a Canadian duo, Rhya Tamasauskas and Nicholas Stedman, the Tribot is a three-legged robot that shakes and slithers about.
