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Webliography
Robo-Squirrel
Robot Zoo
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/robotzoo/
Audience: All ages
The Robot Zoo is a traveling exhibit from the Tech Museum of Innovation that reveals the biomechanics of giant robot animals to illustrate how real animals work. Nature's engineering and human technology converge in this exciting exhibit, which features giant robot animals and more than a dozen hands-on activities! Click on the Teacher’s Guide button.
Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-05/mechanical-creatures-try-mingle
Audience: Teacher Resource
Popular Science notes the Hampshire College study which uses robot animals to study animal behavior.
Designer Life-form
http://www.popsci.com/gear-gadgets/article/2006-04/smartest-robot-pet-yet
Audience: Teacher Resource
"Pleo" is not a robotic pet but a designer life-form. That's because, on the outside, everything about the one-week-old Camarasaurus is very unrobotic. Its movements are fluid, not rigid; its actions are seemingly spontaneous and unprogrammed; and its skin is smooth, seamless and stretchy. Inside, however, the 3.3-pound Pleo is very robotic indeed. It's stuffed with 38 sensors to detect light, motion, touch and sound. They feed information about Pleo's environment to one of eight processors that can handle a collective 60 million calculations per second. A complex computer program determines what the dino does next-howl over the edge of a table, sneeze, crane its neck around 180 degrees to see who«s scratching its back, or any of thousands of other possibilities. As Pleo«s manufacturer, Ugobe in Emeryville, California, develops more sophisticated personality coding, you«ll be able to upgrade the robot through its SD-card slot or from the Web through its USB port. Pleo«s Jurassic competition, the WowWee Roboreptile, successor to the popular Robosapien, also hits shelves this fall.
Squirrel Crafts
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/forest-squirrels.htm
Audience: Kindergarten to 3rd grade
Assorted squirrel crafts and coloring pages from DLTK.
