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| Super jumper: A 9-foot-long robot grasshopper appears ready for a spring-assisted takeoff. |
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Warm greetings: A robot giraffe gives visitors a warm welcome at the entrance to the exhibit. |
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| Camouflage expert: A chameleon with video screens covering its body demonstrates how it changes its body colour in different situations. |
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| Tall tales: The head and neck of the robot giraffe stretch nine feet from a cartoon-like factory window. |
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| Aquatic predator: A robot platypus forages for food under the water alongside a riverbank. |
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| Panoramic vision: A robot housefly features a 10-foot wingspread and multiple visual receptors to simulate the real insect's compound eyes. |
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| Cool tools: A robot platypus showcases its unusual features, including a sensory snout simulating a duckbill the real mammal uses to locate prey in murky waters. |
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| Nodding off: Visitors can operate a winch to raise and lower the robot rhino's head into position on its body. |
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| Rodent at rest: A 6-foot robot bat that hangs upside-down from a tree branch draws visitors' attention. |
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| Praising nature: Science Museum Assistant Curator Eddie Ng says the Robot Zoo exhibit reveals the magic of nature as a master engineer by showing animals' structures. |
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| Easily manipulated: A kid triggers a joystick to move the robot chameleon's eyes, tongue and head. |
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| Hear's seeing you: When visitors aim the robot bat's head at insect targets, a digital display reveals the distance to each bug to demonstrate echolocation, a bat's sonar system for hunting prey at night. |
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| Hide and seek: "I can blend into my surroundings like a chameleon does!" |
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| Propelling force: Kids learn how squids propel themselves through the game called Jet Propelled. |
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Robot body shop: Hinges, pumps and springs in "Robot Body Shop" show students the mechanics of similar parts in the exhibit's robot animals. |
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| Sticky feet: Kids wearing special hand and knee pads try to stick like house flies onto a slanted surface. |
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| Get set...Go!: Two youngsters wearing shells race like turtles around the Tortoise Track. |
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| On the record: Students jot down a chameleon's unique features. |
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| Mysterious atmosphere: Images of a bat's head are projected on the wall behind the robot bat's head. |
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Joint forces: "Come and see how powerful we are!" |
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