Dec 19, 2013 1:30 PM

Gallery: A Bizarre Petting Zoo Where Robots Replace Animals

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*Petting Zoo* is an interactive installion that replaces animals with robotic pets. *Image: Minimaforms*
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The pets react to human touch and interaction. *Image: Minimaforms*

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A Kinect camera senses the visitors' location and movement and their activity is mapped. *Image: Minimaforms*
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Each pet constructs a framework pattern of behaviors that act as memory and enable each pet to learn to evolve over time. *Image: Minimaforms*

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They're able to develop a series of behaviors that fits the context of each situation. *Image: Minimaforms*
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The installation is an investigation into how architecture can enable new relationships and alter engagement between people, information and space. *Image: Minimaforms*

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