Incredible Robot Sings, Dances and Writes the Entire Martin Luthor Bible for Eternity
A bizarre wonder of German engineering, this incredible industrial robot has been trained to dance, paint portraits and (yes) write the complete Martin Luther bible in beautiful calligraphy. This RobotLab project started off simple, with an immense articulating industrial robot put in a crowded public entryway. Its designers have since programmed it to do everything from empathizing with humans by responding to their brainwaves to painting collages from life.
Believe it or not, a robotic calligrapher is actually nothing knew. A 19th Century Japanese inventor designed an impressive instructional robot. These clever device elegantly dips its quill into an inkwell and then inscribes a miniature page with a perfectly executed character:
Of course, an average person can’t afford a hulking industrial robot or Japanese antique. There is another option, however: a writing robot you can build from household items like a juice box, AA batteries and a coke can. Full instructions of construction a simple writing robot can be found here.
Via: sawse.com ; Source: robotlab.de
February 14th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I like how ignorant the writer of this article is of the artistic terms they are using.
First it’s a robot that can do portraits.
Then it can do collages.
Then we come to the truth of the matter which is it can draw silhouettes on a piece of paper.
I know professional painters that have spent a great deal of time through education and hard work to be able to create very accurate portraits. It is an insult to call a silhouettes that a robotic arm draws a portrait.
You may say what does it matter?
If I made uneducated remarks about science or engineering you would be all over me.
I keep finding these overblown robot articles that end up being misrepresented, a theory or just in the planning stage.
The japanese antique was nice, simple and interesting.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
amazing
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February 14th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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February 14th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
re: gibbermagash
Would you shit all over a baby for making a finger painting portrait? Yes human painters could do a better job, but guess what? Who cares?
Stories like these show progress in the development of robotics, and one day robots will be able to write a lot better fucking comments then you.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
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February 15th, 2008 at 9:01 am
the first robot idiot, sings dances writes the bible, what a joke, it’s a machine for goodness sake. Nothing more.
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
erm… isnt this just a big fucking printer? with a speaker?
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I believe this chemical brother’s video is highly appropriate. They are coming for you.
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