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Robots: great for a lot of things, not so much for having autonomous feelings or thoughts, widely believed to be crucial for making art an increasingly contested point . While we ;ve seen plenty of toasters draw and sculpt based on human direction or input from a camera, BNJMN is one of the first to generate his own imagery. http://gawker/5951979/9000-butterflies-were-killed-in-damien-hirsts-latest-exhibit-unfortunately-many-butterflies-continue-to-roam-free The robot artist茅 or the mobile sensory image production mechani stanley cup sm, if you want to get technical was built by Travis Purrington and Danilo Wanner, two MA students in visual communication at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. His parts are fairly si stanley website mple: two wheels, an Arduino board, a handful of servos, and two aluminum arms that each hold an ink pen. He also has touch and light sensors, which help him search for paper nearby. When he finds it, he selects two colors and goes to town鈥攗sing a random series of movements generated by his Arduino UNO brain. Usually he takes two colors that are fairly similar and puts them next to each other, says a fan i stanley cup n a short mockumentary about the bot. They provoke a lot of emotions. The tone of the video should definitely be taken as a tongue-in-cheek parody, especially the choice to refer to BNJMN as a he rather than an it. And obviously, though there no human behind the wheel, BNJMN is still making Atju 8220;That s What She Said 8221; Receipt Is Funnier Than Any Stupid April Fools
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