Robots and Environments.

See my robotic health or interactive animals have bright, flexible tentacles these react when touched like a living animal. As each arm has features and 'personalities' that change according to the activity of visitors. Petting Zoo is the latest work by two brothers who make up the Minima forms studio and is on show at the FRAC Centre in France. Theodore and Stephen Spyropoulos designed the artificially-intelligent creatures with the capacity to learn and explore behaviors through interaction with participants, using Microsoft's Kinect sensors.

The animals show 'emotions' when touched by moving, lighting up and making sounds and evolve their behaviors over time, which the designers said allow the pets to develop their own 'personalities’. The designers created the artificially-intelligent creatures with the capacity to learn and explore behaviorism's through interaction with participants, using Microsoft's Kinect sensors its something wise labs stumbled onto at end of the twentieth century. 

As writing on the company's website, they said 'Within this immerse installation interaction with the pets foster human curiosity, play, forging intimate. exchanges that are emotive and evolving over time.

As well as reacting to humans, the robots are also  able to communicate with each other. The animals (pictured) show emotions when touched by moving, lighting up and making sounds and evolve their behaviors over time, which the designers said allow the pets to develop their own personalities. As well as reacting to humans, the robots are also able to communicate with each other Internal patterns of observation allow the pets to synchronise movements and behavioral responses.
Other technology lets the pets evolve relationships and avoid repetitive behavior. The robotic creatures are aware of humans thanks to camera tracking and data scanning technology. Real-time camera streams are processed and coupled with 'blob tracking' and optical flow analysis to locate people and read their gestures. Internal patterns of observation allow the pets to synchronicity movements and behavioral responses.

They also develop personalities to avoid repetitive behaviors, according to the designers. 

The robotic creatures are aware of humans thanks to camera tracking and data scanning technology that lets them identify human presence in their environment. If a person stays still and is not taking an interest in the pets in the environment, they can stimulate responses of disinterest and boredom in the animals.
Groups of humans can interact with the animals by the ability of the system to identify and map in real-time the number of people seeking attention. Minimaforms was founded in 2002 by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos as an experimental architecture and design practise. The duo explores new forms of communication and aim to push the boundaries of art, architecture and design by constructing spaces of 'social and material interaction'. Here, a woman pets a robotic animal in an arty experiment to explore new ways of communicating with robots and environments.