The Robotic Action Painter

by Paul Miller, posted May 8th 2006 at 6:20AM

As much as we enjoy a bit of the artsy fartsy now and then, we are much more the connoisseur of labor saving devices. Thats why the Robotic Action Painter (his friends call him RAP) scores major points with us. Not only is he doing the whole pen-on-paper, expressing-his-feelings type of stuff, but he does it completely without human intervention, based on his own "sense of rightness." There is an element of randomness in his AI, but the robot watches its own work and looks for patterns of colors in order to decide once his masterpiece is finished. Then he signs his initials and dons his beret for an afternoon in the cafe. He's quite the abstract artist, and is strangely silent on the meanings of his work, but we're sure it all comes from a troubled childhood and an overbearing motherboard.

[Via WMMNA]

Filed under: Robots

Tags: art, artist, rap, robot, robotic action painter, RoboticActionPainter

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Cliff @ May 8th 2006 6:43AM

His art kinda sucks

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Rob @ May 8th 2006 7:52AM

Am I the only one who misread the title "Robotic Action Partner"? I guess I'll have to keep waiting for that one...

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zoara @ May 8th 2006 8:14AM

The wheels used by this device are an innovative solution to the problem of wheels 'dragging' when moving at an angle to their rolling angle.

They're probably old hat by now, but I haven't seen them before. Very clever.

The 'art' is pretty bad, actually. Would maybe look better if it used paints rather than pens; as it stands it just looks like childish scribbles, whereas with paint it might look more, I dunno, 'modern art'.

Very vague on how it assesses 'completeness' though.

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Mister Smith @ May 8th 2006 9:27AM

LOGO was better.

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SubGenius @ May 8th 2006 9:30AM

This would be great if it could be turned into a portable compact printer the size of a matchbox. Pull out a blank sheet of paper and put your matchbox sized printer on a flat surface and in a few seconds you have a printed page.

Roomba meets inkjet printer

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tiuk @ May 8th 2006 11:21AM

Yeah, I'd love something that could analyze my handwriting, then "print" a document to a page using my handwriting as a "font".

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abigsmurf @ May 8th 2006 11:34AM

A drawing robot given it's own AI. I can see it now..

WHEN LOGO ATTACKS

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lovinit @ May 8th 2006 12:55PM

OOH. MUST HACK.

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Shane @ May 8th 2006 2:46PM

Didn't they have these in the '80s? I think it was called a turtle.

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John @ May 9th 2006 2:15PM

Yah turtles are kewl...
but not in the 80's... http://www.turtlekiss.com/

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