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Robot 250: BigBot "Reach, Robot"
PPG Place's BigBot, "Reach,Robot" by artist Grisha Coleman, will work as a sound and visual/kinetic installation as well as a domain for public interaction and participation. Using technologies that include laser sensing devices, a network of strands or "webbing" of cables will be suspended above the heads of the public. The public interacts with "Reach,Robot" through different physical gestures: walking, pausing, stepping, reaching - throughout different areas of the PPG Plaza. The pedestrian can activate, or "conduct" this robotic field, a confluence of webbing with sensor technology, triggering fragments of sound that together create an ambient symphonic environment. Coleman's composition is original contemporary music that references and samples the rich history of Pittsburgh's Black heritage.
Robot 250: Big Bot Survey
Follow CMU's video camera around the North Side as it gets up close and personal with 3 of our BigBots! Featured BigBots: Green Roof Roller Coaster by Greg Witt and Joey Hayes at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, You're #1 by Ian Ingram on top of the Andy Warhol Museum and Crickets by Keny Marshall in the Garden at the Mattress Factory museum.
BigBot: Extreme Animals: The Video Game
Robot 250 BigBot installation by Matt Barton and Jacob Ciocci. This BigBot can be found on the 3rd floor of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, overlooking the new dinosaur exhibit.
BigBot: Green Roof Roller Coaster
Robot 250 BigBot installation by Greg Witt and Joey Hayes. This BigBot lives on the roof of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh!
BigBot: Mower
Robot 250 installation by Osman Khan. You can find Moe on the lawn in front of Phipps Conservatory.
BigBot: Crickets
BigBot: Shelter
Robot 250 BigBot installation by Garth Zeglin. This BigBot is located on the 2nd floor of the Carnegie Library in Oakland.
Matress Factory Workshop
This video was produced by the teens at the Mattress Factory R250 Workshop. It will be playing at the MF Gallery.
MAYAmake.How-To.EdibleRobotics
A five minute film on how to make your own edible robot. Edible robotics is an exciting new field of research into robots as food and prey. This research was supported by Robo250, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the Mattress Factory and MAYA Design, Inc.