"We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learntocoexist with what we don't understand, " he says.
Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).