Salvador DaBot, The Portraitist Robot
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 22 of September , 2008 at 1:59 am
Sylvain Calinon’s robotic portrait artist that we met last December has been upgraded with a mustache, beret, and some spunky dialogue. And although I’m not sure, it kinda looks like it’s been improving on its style, as well:
The Portraitist Robot recognizes human faces in its surroundings and extracts relevant characteristics from them. By using its uncanny artistic talent, it then draws portraits of the participants from the captured images by converting them into vector art and by using inverse kinematics to control the robot’s arm.
I sort of liked the old-world charm of the quill and ink of the previous incarnation of this bot, but I have to say, the new version (which debuted at Google Zeitgeist 2008) is quite a charmer.
[ Sylvain Calinon ]
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