We stumbled across this project, called Turbulence, over on Prosthetic Knowledge: it’s a series of paintings, done charmingly in watercolor, by a robot. The robotic arm quickly traces three-sided ...
Talk about technology’s encroachment into the creative industries is everywhere right now. But a year-long residency in robotic painting revealed to me just how inflated and imprecise the public ...
On most Mondays during football season, two Duke employees can be found at Wallace Wade Stadium painting the field to get it ready for the upcoming weekend. They spend a few hours meticulously ...
Have you ever painted a wall in your home? Perhaps you were coating the baby’s room in pink or blue, or you thought the dining room would look pretty in sunshine yellow. If you have the experience of ...
Can the artist’s hand be replaced by a robot’s touch? Tech artist Pindar Van Arman thinks so. He’s created bitPaintr, an artistic robot that paints portraits using a brush, canvas, and of course, ...
We’re fascinated with robots doing human things, from Elektro chain-smoking its way through the 1939 World’s Fair to the Turk automaton that was beating people at chess during the 18th and 19th ...
Art has always been fundamentally intertwined with technology. New techniques and materials have constantly allowed artists to innovate and create new types of works. In this series we look at the ...