The World's First Robot Zoo


	The World's First Robot Zoo

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7-18-2007 8:14 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/369f599a-a088-4d55-af1f-f3794e5acdd7/2748E36E-4BEA-4DC4-AC91-998D6073132F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/the-worlds-firs.html" href="http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/the-worlds-firs.html" style="font-size: 11px;">popsci.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/the-worlds-firs.html">The <A href="http://www.leonelmoura.com/robotarium.html" target="_blank">Robotarium X</A>, designed by robotics artist Leonel Moura, is a steel-and-glass structure that houses 45 robots representing 14 different "species" with unique behaviors and body types. Some, like the Araneax and Zoid 'bots, are insect-like and creepy. Some resemble snails or land-dwelling coral and others are fanciful moving pods that, well, don't look like anything on earth. The experience of visiting the zoo is meant to be a commentary on the human act of capturing and watching other life forms, and on the way living creatures interact with one another. For instance, if you put 14 different species in one enclosure at the Bronx Zoo, you'd probably have an interesting show, indeed (<A target="_blank" href="http://www.kingofthecage.com/">King of the Cage</A>, anyone?). But as Moura charmingly says on his Web site, at the Robotarium, "there are no fights or aggression... the only competition is to assure a place under the sunlight."</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/the-worlds-firs.html" href="http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/the-worlds-firs.html" style="font-size: 11px;">popsci.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/the-worlds-firs.html"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NmBWiG_WgTo" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2748E36E-4BEA-4DC4-AC91-998D6073132F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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