robot artist draws portraits
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posted: December 28th, 2007 5 comments author: technabob
This humanoid robot holds a pen in its hand and can draw an image of any person who stands in front of it.
Created by robotic researcher Sylvain Calinon, the robot recognizes when there’s a face in its field of view, then snaps a digital photo and extracts the major characteristics of their visage. Once that’s done, the robot turns itself into an X/Y plotter, picking up an old-fashioned quill pen and gradually filling in the details of a portrait.
I think it would be really cool to set up a bunch of these in a row, creating different styles of art using ink, pastel, oils and acrylics. Sylvain, are you listening?
[via BotJunkie]
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5 comments comment
1. todayinart.com | December 28th, 2007 at 9:44 am
pretty interesting! It would be neat if it used a pencil or something that could render pressure applied.
2. Sylvain Calinon | December 29th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Yes, this is work in progress!
If interested, there are more videos available at http://www.calinon.ch and http://lasa.epfl.ch
3. D H | December 29th, 2007 at 11:11 am
It just digitizes a picture, then prints it to a plotter with an ink/time procedure. So?
4. Yazan | December 29th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Wait .. .are we praising a machine’s ability to take a still image and reproduce it with ink ??
5. Nail | December 29th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Pretty cool, if it could reenact the common human possture with holding a pen it would be much better.
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