The Robot Zoo - Fact Sheet (2,500 SF Scaled Version)
Fact Sheet Exhibit Title:
The Robot Zoo A traveling children's exhibit that reveals the biomechanics of giant robot animals to illustrate how real animals work.
Size: 2,500 square feet Itinerary: One exhibit set will tour a total of 15 science center and natural history museums and zoos in North America over the five-year tour.
Highlights: Three robot animals and eight hands-on activities reveal the magic of nature as a master engineer.
Tongue Gun - Triggering a joystick on the model of a robot chameleon's head fires a long tongue at insect targets to show how the reptile catches food.
Hide and Seek - Children can blend in like a chameleon. Wearing a coat that matches a wall in the background, kids can watch themselves appear and disappear on a video monitor.
Hear's Seeing You - When visitors aim the robot bat's head at insect targets, a digital display reveals the distance to each bug to demonstrate echolocation, a bat's sonar system for hunting prey at night.
Swat the Fly - This activity tests participants' reaction time (about one-twelfth as fast a house fly's). Visitors use their hands to "swat" each fly as it lights up.
Sticky Feet - Kids, wearing special hand and kneepads, can try to stick like flies to a sloping surface.
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