23 Feb – 10 May 2026
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Sun – Thu: 10am – 7pm |
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Fri – Sat: 10am – 9pm |
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ArtScience Laboratory, Basement 2 | Admission Free Admission |
Step into a mini laboratory where technology meets nature. Through hands-on exploration, young visitors discover how insects, machines and humans learn, sense, and care for the world around us. Observe an AI pet that responds to your behaviour, peer into the hidden details of insect specimens through kid-friendly microscopes, and learn about cyborg insects designed to support real-world rescue missions.
Drop-in Activities
Meet insect specimens such as butterflies, beetles and praying mantises up close. Using magnifying glasses and Foldscopes, take a closer look at these amazing insects and discover the unique features that help them sense and navigate their environments.
Meet a gentle AI pet that uses emotional AI to learn from interaction. As you spend time with it, its behaviour evolves, revealing how relationships between humans and machines can be shaped by attention, care and responsiveness.
Meet the part insect, part computer Cyborg Cockroach. Designed to assist in disaster rescue missions, these remarkable creatures demonstrate how biological intelligence and engineering can work together to help locate survivors in hard-to-reach environments. Observe the cockroach up close and watch videos that reveal how sensors, AI and insect behaviour come together in life-saving research.
A micro festival of insects, machines and intelligent futures
Signal & Swarm is a micro festival that explores intelligence in all its forms — biological, digital and mechanical. Inspired by the intricate worlds of Insects: Microsculptures Magnified and NOX: Confessions of a Machine, the programme weaves together practices of care, curiosity and co-evolution to invite reflection on urban futures, machine empathy and the hidden lives of insects.
Enter an unorthodox learning space where experiments are encouraged, creativity thrives and different disciplines converge.
Presented in collaboration with artists and creatives, ArtScience Encounters is an invitation to discover curious spaces hidden within ArtScience Museum’s unique architecture.