“Empathy is the new black,” someone said to me recently, referring to the trend in recent years to blame many of humanity’s most pressing problems on the depletion of empathy in today’s tech-mediated ...

RoboGrammar is a new system that automates and optimizes robot design. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. It could spawn more inventive robot forms with ...

ESPOO, Finland — Is robot art more creative when you see the metallic hand behind it? According to Finnish researchers, the answer is yes. A new study reveals that humans give robot-created art higher ...

Machines creating art: the emergence of AI as the artist. Source: Image by Patrick Tresset Meet Patrick Tresset, a London-based artist. His art practice follows two main paths. On one hand, Tresset ...

SketRobo and DanceRobo are among the bots shown by the company SketRobo is a small robot that can draw pictures ranging from pre-programmed ones to custom portraits. The robot at IFA held an ink pen ...

A university computer scientist is using robots and other technology to draw middle and high school students to STEM.

Although Patrick Tresset still regards himself an artist, he no longer paints. He still produces portraits, but doesn’t draw them with his hands. Tresset instead has turned to robotics, creating a ...

MIT has created a pretty cool "phantograph," a machine that mimics the way humans draw. The twist? This phantograph is a drone. The system tracks pen movements as a user draws on a desk. These ...

Artists everywhere, take heed: there's a robot pining for your jobs, and it's pretty good at what it does. The mDrawBot is a 4-in-1 robot that is able to hold a pen or pencil and draw images onto ...