These aerobes perceive each other through high-frequency radio waves, and they use thermal sensing to detect other living creatures in their environment.
We also looked deeply into the field of soft robotics, and ultimately brought the aerobes to life by designing them with fluid movement and lighter-than-air construction.
An aerobe might be curious about your heat signature, and fly over to greet and flirt with you, while other aerobes are more shy and might go out of their way to avoid a crowd.
To explore this question, I created two new machine species that I call " aerobes." I released 12 aerobes into the museum space so they could form their own small ecosystem.