Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) in Germany have recently developed a sketching robot that can accurately draw a human face in just ten minutes.
It is an industrial robot which has been adapted to sketch an authentic interpretation of its subject. The robot installation was developed by artists in the robot-lab group at the Centre for Art and Media ZKM in German city, Karlsruhe, in collaboration with robotic experts from the Fraunhofer Institute.
IOSB scientist Martina Richter said, “We have used an image-evaluation process that essentially equips the robot with the sense of sight. Once the camera has captured the image, edge-processing software then seeks out the contrasts in the image and translates these to robot coordinates to the movement of the robot’s arm.”
The robot will be showing off its creative side at a conference in Hanover, Germany next month when visitors can view the metal painter in action and have it sketch their faces.
Does this mean in future this sketchingbot will be replacing the traditional sketchers aiding police departments to draw the faces of criminals? Can’t say yes or no.
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