No One Is Safe
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
In the future the old portrait artists will tell their grandchildren about how they used to work feverishly in Times Square back in the day. Now though, all those jobs are long gone. They got robots doin’ ‘em now.
Humanoid robot drawing portraits [YouTube] ectotweeted by Robin L.
Categories: Robots, Twitter, Art
Posted at 5:26 pm on January 30, 2008
4 Comments -
Yet another job me and my kind will take from your grubby paws, meatbag.
Comment by chesh — January 30, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
Someone needs to point that robot to an art forum for criticisms. I think he’s still got a while to go before he can break through and get recognized.
Is anyone else confused as to why they designed a robot to use a quill and ink? When is the last time you even saw a person using those?
Comment by sean grimm — January 30, 2008 @ 7:24 pm
@sean,
It is the dichotomy of the old coupled with the new that leads the designers to incorporate something so anachronistic into their future exterminator of humanity.
That, or they just think it is funny.
Comment by racerabbit — January 30, 2008 @ 10:25 pm
So… what does he write at the end as his signature.
I read it as: HOAR?
I think it’d be funny if it wrote “ASSHOLE” across the portrait, then laughed in its very creepy robotic voice.
Comment by Chiablo — January 30, 2008 @ 10:27 pm