CNET | Fraunhofer’s portrait robot at CeBIT
March 25, 2012
CNET | Robots are widely used now, and they’re only spread even farther into daily life. The sci-fi future may be closer than you think. The Fraunhofer Institute usually uses this robot for gauging the quality of new reflective materials, but at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, it used it to draw portraits. The robot took a digital photo of a person, processed it digitally, drew a line-art portrait, showed it off, erased it, then started over again.
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Comments (4)
by AfroSamurai
this machine is such a showoff! first drawing the picture and then it is like”ooh,look at me,look at how cool i am”!
by Nathanael
What a comment!!!! I hope you are young enough to see it in your home talking to you like a normal person.
by Victor Konshin
Why is this impressive? Robots such as these have been building cars, TVs and tons of other crap for decades so running a preprogrammed set of commands that draws a picture is trivial — A lame trade show demo created by unimaginative marketing types.
by Conrad Green
oh is that all you think they do. well im gonna just eave you to your assumptions