Giant floating robots and millennia-old odors make up a new

installation at Tate Modern Museum

Aimee Dawson

Two species of intelligent robots have moved into some prime, Thames-side real estate: Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Collectively named “aerobes,” the floating orbs that the New York-based artist Anicka Yi has created to inhabit the cavernous space are called “planulae” and “xenojellies”.

Inspired by ocean life forms and mushrooms, helium-filled shapes move around using rotors and small battery pack. Together, they create “ecosystem” within museum, Yi said in a press statement, interacting with their environment and visitors, and displaying individual and group behaviors.

Behind the scenes, an incredible amount of AI technology and research is powering this floating family. A team of specialists has developed the aerial vehicles using software that gives each a unique flight path. The software, called an artificial life program, generates a huge range of journey options for the orbs to take and therefore simulates the somewhat unpredictable processes of natural life.

The robots will respond to the space and people around them by receiving information from electronic sensors positioned around the venue. The signals affect them individually and as a group so that they will behave differently upon each encounter.

“Like a bee’s dance or an ant’s scent trail, the aerobes communicate with each other in ways we cannot understand,” a Tate Modern statement described.

Yi is also using her aerobes to question ideas around intelligence and our focus on the brain as its main transmitter.

Adapted from https://edition.cnn.com/

style/article/anicka-yi-tate-modernturbine- hall/index.html. Access on October 14th, 2021.

Giant floating robots and millennia-old odors make up a new

installation at Tate Modern Museum

Aimee Dawson

Two species of intelligent robots have moved into some prime, Thames-side real estate: Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Collectively named “aerobes,” the floating orbs that the New York-based artist Anicka Yi has created to inhabit the cavernous space are called “planulae” and “xenojellies”.

Inspired by ocean life forms and mushrooms, helium-filled shapes move around using rotors and small battery pack. Together, they create “ecosystem” within museum, Yi said in a press statement, interacting with their environment and visitors, and displaying individual and group behaviors.

Behind the scenes, an incredible amount of AI technology and research is powering this floating family. A team of specialists has developed the aerial vehicles using software that gives each a unique flight path. The software, called an artificial life program, generates a huge range of journey options for the orbs to take and therefore simulates the somewhat unpredictable processes of natural life.

The robots will respond to the space and people around them by receiving information from electronic sensors positioned around the venue. The signals affect them individually and as a group so that they will behave differently upon each encounter.

“Like a bee’s dance or an ant’s scent trail, the aerobes communicate with each other in ways we cannot understand,” a Tate Modern statement described.

Yi is also using her aerobes to question ideas around intelligence and our focus on the brain as its main transmitter.

Adapted from https://edition.cnn.com/

style/article/anicka-yi-tate-modernturbine- hall/index.html. Access on October 14th, 2021.

Giant floating robots and millennia-old odors make up a new

installation at Tate Modern Museum

Aimee Dawson

Two species of intelligent robots have moved into some prime, Thames-side real estate: Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Collectively named “aerobes,” the floating orbs that the New York-based artist Anicka Yi has created to inhabit the cavernous space are called “planulae” and “xenojellies”.

Inspired by ocean life forms and mushrooms, helium-filled shapes move around using rotors and small battery pack. Together, they create “ecosystem” within museum, Yi said in a press statement, interacting with their environment and visitors, and displaying individual and group behaviors.

Behind the scenes, an incredible amount of AI technology and research is powering this floating family. A team of specialists has developed the aerial vehicles using software that gives each a unique flight path. The software, called an artificial life program, generates a huge range of journey options for the orbs to take and therefore simulates the somewhat unpredictable processes of natural life.

The robots will respond to the space and people around them by receiving information from electronic sensors positioned around the venue. The signals affect them individually and as a group so that they will behave differently upon each encounter.

“Like a bee’s dance or an ant’s scent trail, the aerobes communicate with each other in ways we cannot understand,” a Tate Modern statement described.

Yi is also using her aerobes to question ideas around intelligence and our focus on the brain as its main transmitter.

Adapted from https://edition.cnn.com/

style/article/anicka-yi-tate-modernturbine- hall/index.html. Access on October 14th, 2021.

La Palma volcano eruptions shut airport and force

more evacuations

Source: TRTWorld and agencies

The Cumbre Vieja volcano is seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma, September 25, 2021.

Rivers of lava raced down the Cumbre Vieja volcano and exploded high into the air overnight on the Spanish island of La Palma and the airport was closed as an eruption intensified and entered its most explosive phase so far.

Since it began erupting on Sunday on the small island in the Atlantic, volcano has spewed out thousands of tons of lava, destroyed hundreds of houses and forced the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people.

Authorities said on Saturday that the 160 people evacuated from three more towns on Friday would not be able to return to their homes to retrieve their belongings because of the “evolution of the volcanic emergency”.

Experts said the volcano had entered a new explosive phase.

“Volcanic surveillance measurements carried out since the beginning of the eruption recorded the highest-energy activity so far during Friday afternoon,” emergency services said in a statement on Friday evening.

Spanish airport operator Aena said on Saturday the island’s airport had been closed. “La Palma airport is inoperative due to ash accumulation. Cleaning tasks have started, but the situation may change at any time”.

Adapted from https://www.trtworld.com/europe/la

-palma-volcano-eruptionsshut- airport-force-more-evacuations-50241. Access on October 25th, 2021.

La Palma volcano eruptions shut airport and force

more evacuations

Source: TRTWorld and agencies

The Cumbre Vieja volcano is seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma, September 25, 2021.

Rivers of lava raced down the Cumbre Vieja volcano and exploded high into the air overnight on the Spanish island of La Palma and the airport was closed as an eruption intensified and entered its most explosive phase so far.

Since it began erupting on Sunday on the small island in the Atlantic, volcano has spewed out thousands of tons of lava, destroyed hundreds of houses and forced the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people.

Authorities said on Saturday that the 160 people evacuated from three more towns on Friday would not be able to return to their homes to retrieve their belongings because of the “evolution of the volcanic emergency”.

Experts said the volcano had entered a new explosive phase.

“Volcanic surveillance measurements carried out since the beginning of the eruption recorded the highest-energy activity so far during Friday afternoon,” emergency services said in a statement on Friday evening.

Spanish airport operator Aena said on Saturday the island’s airport had been closed. “La Palma airport is inoperative due to ash accumulation. Cleaning tasks have started, but the situation may change at any time”.

Adapted from https://www.trtworld.com/europe/la

-palma-volcano-eruptionsshut- airport-force-more-evacuations-50241. Access on October 25th, 2021.

La Palma volcano eruptions shut airport and force

more evacuations

Source: TRTWorld and agencies

The Cumbre Vieja volcano is seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma, September 25, 2021.

Rivers of lava raced down the Cumbre Vieja volcano and exploded high into the air overnight on the Spanish island of La Palma and the airport was closed as an eruption intensified and entered its most explosive phase so far.

Since it began erupting on Sunday on the small island in the Atlantic, volcano has spewed out thousands of tons of lava, destroyed hundreds of houses and forced the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people.

Authorities said on Saturday that the 160 people evacuated from three more towns on Friday would not be able to return to their homes to retrieve their belongings because of the “evolution of the volcanic emergency”.

Experts said the volcano had entered a new explosive phase.

“Volcanic surveillance measurements carried out since the beginning of the eruption recorded the highest-energy activity so far during Friday afternoon,” emergency services said in a statement on Friday evening.

Spanish airport operator Aena said on Saturday the island’s airport had been closed. “La Palma airport is inoperative due to ash accumulation. Cleaning tasks have started, but the situation may change at any time”.

Adapted from https://www.trtworld.com/europe/la

-palma-volcano-eruptionsshut- airport-force-more-evacuations-50241. Access on October 25th, 2021.

La Palma volcano eruptions shut airport and force

more evacuations

Source: TRTWorld and agencies

The Cumbre Vieja volcano is seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma, September 25, 2021.

Rivers of lava raced down the Cumbre Vieja volcano and exploded high into the air overnight on the Spanish island of La Palma and the airport was closed as an eruption intensified and entered its most explosive phase so far.

Since it began erupting on Sunday on the small island in the Atlantic, volcano has spewed out thousands of tons of lava, destroyed hundreds of houses and forced the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people.

Authorities said on Saturday that the 160 people evacuated from three more towns on Friday would not be able to return to their homes to retrieve their belongings because of the “evolution of the volcanic emergency”.

Experts said the volcano had entered a new explosive phase.

“Volcanic surveillance measurements carried out since the beginning of the eruption recorded the highest-energy activity so far during Friday afternoon,” emergency services said in a statement on Friday evening.

Spanish airport operator Aena said on Saturday the island’s airport had been closed. “La Palma airport is inoperative due to ash accumulation. Cleaning tasks have started, but the situation may change at any time”.

Adapted from https://www.trtworld.com/europe/la

-palma-volcano-eruptionsshut- airport-force-more-evacuations-50241. Access on October 25th, 2021.

La Palma volcano eruptions shut airport and force
more evacuations

Source: TRTWorld and agencies

The Cumbre Vieja volcano is seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma, September 25, 2021.

Rivers of lava raced down the Cumbre Vieja volcano and exploded high into the air overnight on the Spanish island of La Palma and the airport was closed as an eruption intensified and entered its most explosive phase so far.

Since it began erupting on Sunday on the small island in the Atlantic, volcano has spewed out thousands of tons of lava, destroyed hundreds of houses and forced the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people.

Authorities said on Saturday that the 160 people evacuated from three more towns on Friday would not be able to return to their homes to retrieve their belongings because of the “evolution of the volcanic emergency”.

Experts said the volcano had entered a new explosive phase.

“Volcanic surveillance measurements carried out since the beginning of the eruption recorded the highest-energy activity so far during Friday afternoon,” emergency services said in a statement on Friday evening.

Spanish airport operator Aena said on Saturday the island’s airport had been closed. “La Palma airport is inoperative due to ash accumulation. Cleaning tasks have started, but the situation may change at any time”.

Adapted from https://www.trtworld.com/europe/la

-palma-volcano-eruptionsshut- airport-force-more-evacuations-50241. Access on October 25th, 2021.