Shouting at Robots for Art's Sake

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"Shouting and waving your arms at buggy technology doesn’t normally do anything useful. With these robots, it makes art.

The Cobot (for “collaborative robot”) is the brain child of Christian Cerrito, who created it for his master’s thesis at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The pocket-sized Pollock comes in two flavors: the SoundBot, which draws in response to loud noise, and the ShadowBot, which sketches along the boundary between light and dark.

They can even transform anger into art. While Cerrito was writing his final paper, swearing loudly at his computer, the SoundBot doodled on the floor, recording his frustration.

“At some point I looked at the floor, and there was this beautiful drawing,” he said.

Other people enjoyed interacting with the SoundBot and ShadowBot, as shown in the videos" (above)

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