We are surrounded by technology, innovations that have helped the industry to meet the needs of customers and remain in the global market by being competitive and even being able to adapt in the artistic field.
The French bank Rosbank, owned by Société Générale, cooperated with the Russian developer of interactive robot technologies, Hello Computer, carrying out an urban development project in which the main artist was an industrial robot.
This is what Hello Computer did, along with the Fanuc M-710iC robot, where they recreated Monet’s art. Animations generated by human artists were created through a computer and digital design, where the robot has the ability to analyze the surrounding environment, allowing for the participation of the people who were passing through the place by scanning the colors of their clothes to integrate them into the work of art.
In the two-week period, the robotic artist was put on exhibition in the Sokolniki Park, Moscow; inside a glass cell with a brush and approximately four liters of paint, it made two paintings. The robot scanned more than 4,500 passersby and made close to 56,000 brush strokes. The robot draws in a Monet style of impressionism, according to the established parameters.
The development of this project took researchers about two months to design prototypes, until they found the hardware that suited their idea, while the big challenge was to teach it how to paint this process, as it was very similar to teaching a child, since an artist had to spend hours holding a brush like Monet, making long strokes to teach the robotic arm to perform the same movements.
A developer joked: “One time we were testing and it crossed out the image that was almost finished. Apparently, it wasn’t satisfied with the result!”
The project’s first major success was when the robot drew a smiley face, the next success also lay in the creative and interactive capacity that the robot acquired by involving the people who were walking around and allowing them to be co-creators of the works of art, reflecting the combination of colors in the painting. The robot needed to work for 40 hours non-stop with about 20,000 strokes to generate a figure.
The initiators of this project intended to benefit from the latest technologies to attract attention to traditional art. This Fanuc industrial robot managed to demonstrate its impressive agility and variety of configurations, resulting in a solution for future artists.
This design was exhibited internationally in Innoprom Yekaterinburg, as one of the projects that adapts technology, at and community.