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You can't make this stuff up. MAKE Magazine recently featured a video from Opera Mecatronica, on display at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition room is underground, in what was Sweden's first nuclear reactor, built in the 1950s for scientific research and decommissioned in the 1970s. A 3-meter-tall marionette there, named Olimpia, is made from old machine parts and controlled by a computer. Oh, and it dances to an aria from "The Tales of Hoffman."