Thermotrope

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In BEAM robotics, a thermotrope is a robot that reacts to heat sources. Literally, "heat turning," this term is generally (if somewhat inaccurately) applied to heat-seeking robots. More accurately, thermotropes can either seek (thermophiles) or flee (thermophobes) sources of heat.

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