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robot artist draws portraits

Artist Robot by Sylvain Calinon

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…

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December 28th, 2007 comments (6) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: interactive robotics

it’s toast-errific… the toast printer

CNC Toaster

Sure, we’ve seen toast with images of Elvis, Jesus and other famous cultural icons, but this device lets you create any image you’d like, in toast form.

The computer controlled toast burner uses a specially modified CNC fabricator with a hot air gun in its carriage. As the system moves along the horizontal and vertical axes, the heat source is…

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May 2nd, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing just plain fun strange + wonderful