Industrial Robots Make Giant Custom Mosaics
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 21 of October , 2009 at 1:04 am
Most robots aren’t what you’d consider to be inherently artsy, but they have no trouble following really complicated directions involving tedious and repetitive tasks. Like making mosaics. Which, you know, doesn’t really require any talent, so to speak, just a lot of time… It’s kinda like big paint by numbers. Perfect for robots! A company called Artaic is employing an industrial robot arm to pick and place little colored tiles to create as big a mosaic as you want, of anything you want, whether it’s a picture or an actual piece of art. Prices start at about $165 per square foot installed, which seems like a lot but is apparently quite competitive, especially considering how fast the robot can churn stuff out. Here’s a vid; the actual mosaicing stuff starts at about a minute in:
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Comment by Robotbling
Made Wednesday, 21 of October , 2009 at 2:21 am
That is a really cool and innovative use of technology. The smaller pieces look a bit too pixelated for my liking, but the larger ones look fantastic. That said, I’d be much more impressed if it did this using non-uniform tiles. The end result would also look more artsy.
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