APPLIED CURIOSITY

The Hooded Lycrabot (Flore pneumaticae) is a synthetic organism that can detect heat from living things. When approached, a Lycrabot will react with a hissing display of colour.

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These "squishies" incorporate cutting-edge soft robotic research and development from leading technology institutes such as Harvard Biodesign Lab and Whitesides Research Group MIT. Soft robotics involve numerous STEM-relevant fields such as:

• Mechanical engineering (pneumatics)

• Electrical engineering (circuits, sensors, solenoids)

• Physics (fluid dynamics, reaction forces)

• Biomimicry and xenobiology

• 3D design and fabrication

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These Hooded Lycrabots were cultivated at MOD. during 2021 for It's Complicated exhibit Pneumatic Blooms.