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ArtBots - The Robot Talent Show

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 30-seconds-to-a:\fame.exe dept.

douglas repetto writes "Info on the participants in the Second Annual International ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, to be held in New York this July, is now online. and there's lots of fun geek/tech/art candy. Participants include robots that draw, sculpt, and play musical instruments, as well as many with talents that are a bit harder to pin down."

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  1. Yeap... by Kshu · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is how everything started (http://www.terminator3.com/)...

  2. 516 sensors? by lingqi · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am really sorry to bring this up, but this technology can probably be paired up with something like this for the most realistic (or, possibly good beyond realism) blowjob in the history of mankind...

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  3. Anyone else remember... by Alien+Being · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mr. Rembrandt? I'm guessing it was about 1970.

  4. happy feet by tankdilla · · Score: 4, Informative

    did anyone else see the happy feet robot and think of the Simpsons episode where Lisa tapdanced with the automated tap shoes? looks like that may be a reality now.

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  5. as long as a robot can butcher by Savatte · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alicia Keyes' Fallin as well as any 12 year old with a desire to be on American Idol, count me in!

    Maybe soon they will have robots jamming on tennis rackets while one of them blasts old Beatles tunes.

  6. I want a spambot by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that can filter my inbox. That's real art, man.

  7. captured by robots (of the musical variety) by dragoness · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a band called Captured by Robots that's pretty cool. The guy built a bunch of robots (i.e. the 12 string autoharp named "GTRBOT666") for his bandmates as he "didn't get along with the human variety" very well.

    The music is eh, but the show itself is rad.

    These are some pictures of the robots themselves: http://www.chromatic-fantasy.com/2002-05-04-captur ed-by-robots/index.html

    (Yes, the robots actually play music.. )

    -A

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  8. "Give it time" or "The Evolution of BS AI" by Anubis333 · · Score: 3, Funny

    With our current level of technology robots are incapable of existing in the art world. They may be able to create a useless, uninspired, simple meaningless object, scribble, or splatter, but they are incapable of the the silver tongued chaos, fraud, and illogic involved in passing off such pieces as anything other than what they are: sheer garbage.

    Longest. Sentence. Ever.

    CE

  9. New Fall Lineup for Fox? by RobSwider · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can see it now...

    Worlds Most Talented Robot

    15 Seconds to Robot Fame

    Who Wants to Marry a Robot?

    American Robot