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 ...

Robots are painting pictures that wouldn’t look out of place in a gallery and they’re earning their creators cash prizes of up to $40,000. The annual RobotArt competition has picked the ten teams that ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed an A.I.-powered arm that can paint an abstract acrylic. Is it art? By Oliver Whang One day recently, on a table in Jean Oh’s lab in the Squirrel ...

A system developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo lets people collaborate with groups of robots to create works of art inspired by music. The new technology features multiple wheeled ...

Ai-Da sits behind a desk, paintbrush in hand. She looks up at the person posing for her, and then back down as she dabs another blob of paint onto the canvas. A lifelike portrait is taking shape. If ...

When Paul Kirby walks into his studio just north of 14th Street Southwest in Loveland, he isn’t sure exactly how far his art partner got in their ongoing painting overnight. After he puts his lunch in ...

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 ...

Polish artist Agnieszka Pilat poses with the artwork of her robot painting dogs - Basia Spot and Bunny Spot - who have become artists painting on canvases with their paws, at the launch of the ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system that allows humans to ...

Agnieszka Pilat is not your typical artist. She doesn’t use brushes, pencils or even her own hands to create her artwork. Pilat, who was born in Poland and now lives in the U.S., spent months teaching ...

It is now rare for a painting to sell for around or more than $1 million unless it was from a culturally significant or deceased artist, but the humanoid robot, Ai-Da, has recently shocked the world ...

Artist Agnieszka Pilat with Basha, the robot dog, with some of the paintings created by the machine. (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) “I work for the machine and I’m very optimistic about ...