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Meet 'GTGraffiti,' The Graffiti-Painting Robot

Graduate students at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a first ever graffiti-painting robot. See how 'GTGraffiti' uses motion capture tech to mimic the fluidity of human movement.

“The arts, especially painting or dancing, exemplify some of the most complex and nuanced motions humans can make,” said robotics Ph.D. student Gerry Chen  . “So if we want to create robots that can do the highly technical things that humans do, then creating robots that can dance or paint are great goals to shoot for. These are the types of skills that demonstrate the extraordinary capabilities of robots and can also be applied to a variety of other applications.”

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    00:00:00 [Music] i think that the real value of robotics comes where humans and robots are helping each other to achieve more than either of us could in isolation gt graffiti is a system that we've made to spray paint graffiti artwork it's inspired by human painting motions that's in contrast to for example an inkjet style printer

    00:00:22 right now it's mounted on a steel frame but really the core of it is these four winches that control these four cables and these four cables connect to the spray paint can in the center then whenever the cables pull on the spray paint can it'll move around our goal is to initially collect a small library of shapes which can then be composed into artistic compositions

    00:00:41 after the fact we capture human graffiti motions so we had a human artist come in and we recorded them as they were painting that way we can mimic human artist motions as well as possible we want to be able to enable humans to do things that they could not do before human painters so one example is a human painter can paint something on a small

    00:01:00 scale and then our robot can paint it on the side of a building that way for example if the human can't access these areas either because they're physically disabled or maybe they're in the wrong geographical location then our robot should be able to help to get their message out to more people art encompasses some of the most nuanced motions that we can make as humans for

    00:01:19 example dancing ballet or painting with a brush or spray painting so the idea is that if we can reproduce these motions then we should also be able to produce a lot of other human motions that are necessary for general automation [Music]