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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Jessica Banks: Immersed in Wonder
Season 2013
Episode 15
Jessica Banks is a roboticist, engineer and designer who creates kinetic furniture (furniture that moves) that she sells through her company, Rock Paper Robot. Among Jessica's other creative pursuits, she's a skull-ptor - she decorates small animal skulls (without the animals) and turns them into tiny works of art.
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