This
piece is currently in progress. You can see in the image to the lower
left that it only has one leg as of now. My intention is to have it walk
around a room and hum to itself (sample sound to the left).
Much
like the Brocha and Wernicke sculpture, this piece follows a theme of
endowing an object with life, or a least the illusion of life. It has
the ability to walk and therefore discover its environment. It will use
an ultrasonic range finder to see where walls and obstructions are and
avoid them. But it is not fully capable of free movement. It is in a transitional
stage as it is reliant on a carriage to stand up much like babies practice
walking in a baby walker or children learn to ride a bicycle using training
wheels. It also is incapable of manipulating its envirnment because it
has no arms or hands, but it can think about it as it hums a little tune.
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