THE ROBOT ZOO
JANUARY 18, 2020 - APRIL 26, 2020
Explore the biomechanics of complex animal robots to discover how real animals work.
Machinery in the robot animals simulates the body parts of their real-life counterparts. Muscles become pistons, intestines become filtering pipes, and brains become computers.
- See three larger than life animated robot animals
- Try “Swat the Fly” - a test of their reaction time
- Play “Sticky Feet” using special knee and hand pads to climb a slope
- Trigger the “Tongue Gun” to demonstrate how a chameleon reels in its meals, and
- Control the color and movement of the “Robot Chameleon”!
“The Robot Zoo” exhibit is a past winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Themed Entertainment Association.
This traveling exhibit was created by Evergreen Exhibitions which is one of the world’s premier providers of traveling museum exhibits and is the co-founder of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Award for Innovation.
Highly respected in the science museum community for their commitment and dedication to quality and education, Evergreen’s exhibits use educational concepts to create high quality, immersing, multi-sensory, entertaining, and educational experiences for family audiences which have been featured in more than 200 of the world’s finest museums and science centers.
This exhibit is sponsored locally by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Foundation, Feild Co-Operative Association, Inc., Sanderson Farms, Inc., Walker Foundation, Ergon, Inc., Gertrude C. Ford Foundation, Trustmark, and other generous sponsors.
