Scientist, artist, and engineer Patrick Tresset has developed a robot that can look at your face and draw a portrait for you while you wait. However, this robot is not designed with precision in mind. Tresset’s robot is designed to have some of the clumsiness and fallibility that make human created works of art so unique.
The robot, named Paul, doesn’t draw very realistic portraits, but they are supposed to be that way. The robot was made to be more inaccurate than available technology would allow by using low-cost servomotors instead of the industrial-grade kind used in the precise robotic arms that skillfully execute tasks everyday in different manufacturing plants. The robot features a visual apparatus that allows it to scan the face of its subject, and an arm that is programmed for a limited number of gestures, including simple tracing and erasing motions.
(Direktlink, via Geekosystem)
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