'We're like pied pipers': Roaming robot a hit with young art lovers

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With sleight of hand and more than a touch of circus magic, Brisbane's pop-up Curiocities installations blend science and art to curious effect.

Music began to play as the wooden crates began to move, immediately attracting the attention of children in the near vicinity who were drawn to it like moths to a flame.Curiocities art and science installations are dotting the banks of the Brisbane River until April 3Crate Expectations is roaming the South Bank concourse from the State Library to the Brisbane Wheel

It looks like nothing more than a bunch of wooden boxes stacked on one another, except that underneath the boxes is a mobile robot controlled by its creators who hover unseen nearby like two conjurers, revealing their tricks one by one with a deft sleight of hand. Finally an old bakelite phone appears inside a box wrapped in red velvet. What else to do but pick it up to hear who's on the line?

 

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