Low-Cost Robotic Arm Sketches Faces

ptresset writes "A low-cost robotic arm has been sketching faces at the Kinetica2010 art fair in London. Created by the Aikon project research team, the system drew faces non-stop, its creator having to take the role of an automata to repeatedly change the paper. The Aikon project is based at Goldsmiths College, University of London. The main objective of the Aikon project is to implement a computational system capable of simulating the various important processes involved in face sketching by artists. The ensemble of processes to be simulated include the visual perception the subject and the sketch, the drawing gestures, the cognitive activity, reasoning, the influence of the years of training, etc. It is evident that due to knowledge and technological limitations the implementation of each process will remain coarse and approximate. The system implemented is expected to draw in its own style."

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[Tablizer]

but you are just a first-post-waiting bot. Not impressed.

Re:Stop the future, I wanna get off

[MichaelSmith]

at the Kinetica2010 art fair in London...the system drew faces non-stop, its creator having to take the role of an automata to repeatedly change the paper.

The robot does fine art but the human changes the paper. Something is wrong here.

I have to do that for the office photocopier too. Its been that way for years.

Thanks a whole fucking lot, boffins...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Everybody knows that the artists were starving already, and now they are going to be replaced by robots?!

In all seriousness, though, that is a pretty cool device.

Someone needs a proofreaders

[Bromskloss]

an automata

I don't think that is the grammatical number you think it is.

Re:Stop the future, I wanna get off

[Inda]

pfft. It's 2010 and I still have to wipe my own...

I thought the article was about facelifts.

[oogoliegoogolie]

I misread the title as "Low-Cost Robotic Arm Stretches Faces." That really didn't sound like it would be very fun.