Autonomous Drawing Robot
Created by Matthias Dörfelt, Mechanical Parts is a series of graphic connectors created by Robo Faber, an autonomous drawing robot determined to reproduce. The robot continuously creates drawings generated using a preset system Matthias developed for Weird Faces and the I Follow flip books. The system works around the idea of thinking how the drawings are created by hand and the same logic designed into the algorithm.
Each connector, or “mechanical part” is entirely random and unique, based on the presets Matthias programmed. In this way the robot can draft an infinite amount of connectors while looking like it is sketching and thinking about a mechanism to reproduce.
Petting Zoo – Artificial creatures designed to learn and explore
Created by London based experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms, this project is speculative life-like robotic environment that raises questions of how future environments could actively enable new forms of communication with the everyday. The artificial intelligent creatures have been designed with the capacity to learn and explore behaviors through interaction with participants.
The tracking and the machine awareness of participant(s) is enabled through Kinect and data scanning with Processing. These allow identification of visitor presence within the physical space. Real time camera streams are processed and coupled with blob tracking and optical flow analysis to locate positions and gestural activity of participants. In addition to the Processing sketch for the installation, the team have also been developing more complex future scenario situations where through simulation possible behavior patterns could be analysed and further refined.
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