Robot Teaches Itself to Paint So Humans Can Lose at Everything in the Future
Posted by Tony on July 15th, 2013Just when you think we’ve come to terms with robots and their place amongst us, they do something else that ruins all those happy-go-lucky feelings we had with them for just a brief moment.
E-David, a robotic arm developed by the University of Konstanz in Germany, is teaching itself to paint.
Using 24 colors and 5 different brushes, E-David takes a photo of its subject and then goes to work recreating it in paint. As E-David paints, it’s constantly checking back and forth between the photo it took and what it’s actually painting. If E-David decides that what’s hitting the canvas isn’t correct, it can change the process on the fly to work toward a better finished painting.
“Our hypothesis is that painting – at least the technical part of painting – can be seen as optimization processes in which color is manually distributed on a canvas until the painter is able to recognize the content – regardless if it is a representational painting or not.”
Just another thing we can all give up doing when the robots take over.
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