People have always thought of drawing and art as a creative subject, one requiring a person there to draw. But that’s all about to change.
Developed by Fraunhofer IOSB, AutoPortrait is a robot that can draw people in caricature. Utilizing a sensor that detects the reflection of light, the robot puts the pen to the paper and draws realistic drawings of its targets. This robot was presented at the CeBIT (Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation) 2012, a popular trade fair for the electronics industries.
So far, this massive robot is probably too expensive for most people, costing about $53,000 dollars. But the art industry isn’t safe yet.
Recently, the Diatom design studio, run by Tiago Rorke and Greg Saul, collaborated with Cheng Xu and Huaishu Peng of the CMU CoDe Lab to make an amazing new robot called “Piccolo.” Requiring only about $70 dollars of resources, Piccolo has the ability to move through all three axis to make the picture it desires. Users can also upload picture libraries with things for Piccolo to draw, which opens up all kinds of possibilities. What’s also notable is that it can use many drawing tools — pen, pencil, brush, or even knife — to draw almost any picture.
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