PaCo Robot Autonomously Generates Poetry For Change
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 28 of April , 2009 at 5:08 am
Yesterday we posted about a robot that begs for money, and today we have a robot that actually delivers something in exchange for your donation. PaCo (which stands for Automatic Online Street Poet) wanders around in an obstacle avoiding wheelchair, using cameras to detect people. When it finds someone, it asks for demands change, and in return it generates a unique piece of poetry (based on a series of language algorithms connected to an online database), which it then recites and prints out for you.
PaCo is from late 2004, but despite its appearance, it actually seems to be relatively sophisticated. I only wish I could speak Spanish well enough to tell whether or not its improvised poetry makes any sense.
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