{"id":1051,"date":"2013-08-02T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T08:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2013-07-16T02:55:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T10:55:56","slug":"a-robotic-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"A Robotic Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as human beings have lived the arts and crafts have been a creative domain restricted to a few with talent. However this may not be the same for long as a new robot wields the paint brush to produce masterpieces of art. Watching it brandish the brush as it uses colors on a canvas to paint, one is forced to think about the future of the art industry.<\/p>\n<p>German scientists, who developed it at the University of Konstanz, have called the artistic robot e-David. This is short for Drawing Apparatus for Vivid Image Display. Although you may be forgiven for assuming that it has something to do with being inspired by Michelangelo&#8217;s sculpture David.<\/p>\n<p>It can choose from 24 different colors and use 5 different brush styles to create its paintings.After each stroke it applies to the canvas it takes a picture and its software calculates where it must lay the next stroke. It is a very tidy robot that even cleans its brushes after using them. Unlike other industrial robots that are used to paint walls and ceiling, the scientists wanted a robot who could paint a cultural masterpiece. This was an interesting challenge in the <a href=\"http:\/\/superchargedscience.com\">science project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as human beings have lived the arts and crafts have been a creative domain restricted to a few with talent. However this may not be the same for long as a new robot wields the paint brush to produce masterpieces of art. Watching it brandish the brush as it uses colors on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}