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THL500 SCARA robot sketching portraits

Published on May 21, 2018

At Automatica 2018, the THL500 SCARA robot will use a connected camera to capture facial features and sketch the portraits of visitors onto a piece of paper — this will be automatically unloaded and loaded using a Toshiba Machine BE series actuator.
 

Cartoonist uses AI to design your worst sanrio nightmares

Published on Jul 21, 2018

"Voice Box" AI injects descriptive text and spits out new Sanrio characters! Kim Horcher and Heather McDonald review the new characters including a manhole, an adorable button-collecting mushroom and more! Let us know which character was your favorite in the comments below!
 

Feed this AI words, get a terrifying picture in return

Published on Aug 25, 2018

A new AI takes your words and phrases and spits out creepy pictures. Kim Horcher and Molly Amos feed this AI pop culture phrases to see what images it produces! Let us know which one was your favorite in the comments below!

“I love technology that’s earnestly bad at doing things. Robots falling down the stairs? Algorithms composing deranged karaoke songs? They’re trying so hard! A for effort.”

"This AI Creates Horrifying Images Based On Your Words"
Yay, researchers trained an algorithm to turn your captions into (nightmarish) images.

by Sarah Emerson
August 17, 2018
 

Sand drawing robot (new version)

Jun 20, 2020

I made a sand drawing robot with 50 miniature servos and a two half tanks, I use an Arduino Mega 2560 to read from an sd card a text file with the desired image and send the servo position data to another two Arduino Mega that then send the adequate signals to the servos. 5 DC to DC converters connected to a 6S LiPo battery provide enough power to support the stalling current of all the 50 servos at once. Two half tanks provide enough grip and torque to drag all the servos through the sand. The entire thing weighs around 14 Kg in working order (with the batteries on) so I had to build a tailor made trailer to cary the thing as there's quite a walking distance to the test field.
I made another version a couple of years ago that can be seen here:
youtube.com/watch?v=7T1esQgRwrM
This new version draws way faster than the previous one but the older one had way more contrast, it is time to think on an MkIII
 

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