2002
Credits
Made under Cynthia Breazeal’s group, the Robotic Life Group, at the MIT Media Lab
Mechanical Design, Heather Knight
Sensor Design, Blake Brasher
Algorithmic Music, Dan McAnulty
Showings
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, 2oo2-2oo3
Cyberflora
CyberFlora explores the crossover between science and art, by looking at a distributed form of intelligence, over 20 robotic flowers.
Instead of typical AI explorations utilizing one highly expressive robot, this installation possesses four species of robotic flower. Each of them possess a simple form of artificial intelligence, so that the full installation has a form of group intelligence.
The flowers are responsive in two simple ways - at a reasonable distance, the flowers will be attracted and attentive to a viewer - some of them track the viewer around the space. If the viewer moves too close, however, a fear response is triggered, and the flowers will recoil.
