Robot Artist Draws Portraits
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December 28th, 2007
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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pretty interesting! It would be neat if it used a pencil or something that could render pressure applied.
Yes, this is work in progress!
If interested, there are more videos available at http://www.calinon.ch and http://lasa.epfl.ch
It just digitizes a picture, then prints it to a plotter with an ink/time procedure. So?
Wait .. .are we praising a machine’s ability to take a still image and reproduce it with ink ??
Pretty cool, if it could reenact the common human possture with holding a pen it would be much better.
Hi,
I am looking for ink cartridges for the Epson CX3600. I have bought compatibles in the past but the ink quality is not so great or the chips dont recognise. Any help would be appreciated :)