Sisyphus V: A Robot Making a Zen Garden

This isn't a sandbox with a marble in it. Sysyphus V, a kineticsculpture by Bruce Shapiro looks like a Zen Garden. But instead of abuddhist monk carefully raking gravel, it's an autonomous steel spherecarefully crawling over and over, making polar geometric shapes thatcan best be described as iterative lilies or stars. A magnet on an armon a two axis plotter sites underneath the half-ton set up.

Source: gizmodo.comAdded: 7 May 2008