Drawing Robot: Artpainter
September 5th, 2006 by Monkey
Eric Rautio made this drawing robot that takes information that people give it over the web and draws it out for them. The drawing implement is a sumi brush that is hacked together to connect to a reservoir above and to the right of the robot.
Artpainter stands for adaptive resonance theory painter, also known as the painting machine. This device takes user input through a website and local tablet pc’s, which it then “learns” through system of neural networks. The machine then improvises using what it has learnt.
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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 3, 2006, 8:44pm
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