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Low-Cost Robotic Arm Sketches Faces

Posted by timothy on from the face-recognition dept.

ptresset writes "A low-cost robotic arm has been sketching faces at the Kinetica2010 art fair in London. Created by the Aikon project research team, the system drew faces non-stop, its creator having to take the role of an automata to repeatedly change the paper. The Aikon project is based at Goldsmiths College, University of London. The main objective of the Aikon project is to implement a computational system capable of simulating the various important processes involved in face sketching by artists. The ensemble of processes to be simulated include the visual perception the subject and the sketch, the drawing gestures, the cognitive activity, reasoning, the influence of the years of training, etc. It is evident that due to knowledge and technological limitations the implementation of each process will remain coarse and approximate. The system implemented is expected to draw in its own style."

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  1. Re:Thanks a whole fucking lot, boffins... by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everybody knows that the artists were starving already, and now they are going to be replaced by robots?!

    robots made by 3rd-world slaves who get 30-cents-per-hour.
         

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  2. Wassup with all these robot stories of late? by kai_hiwatari · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There has been too many robot related news here on slashdot. Are the robots taking over the world faster that we expected?

    1. Re:Wassup with all these robot stories of late? by WegianWarrior · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, they have just learnt how to submit stories to SlashDot.

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  3. Also known as a plotter. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Had one back in 1989.

    Not that cool really.

  4. Re:Court artist? by 91degrees · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Incidently some of the artists used recently seem to have been influenced by the impressionist school of drawing because the drawings they make don't always resemble the subject.

    I thought that was the idea. Given that the suspect is currently presumed innocent, they deserve a little privacy and don't need to be recorded in the media in a way that associates them with a crime.

  5. Exceeded the limited bandwidth ...Solution by ptresset · · Score: 3, Insightful

    please look on youtube!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOtQAhblRps