ARTificial Robot Pintore Autonomoa by Titus Ebbecke

ARTificial Robot Pintore Autonomoa by Titus Ebbecke is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award in Robotika, Automata eta Automatizazio Diseinua Competition Category.

BrontzeRobotika· 2020

ARTificial Robot Pintore Autonomoa

by Titus Ebbecke

Client: University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt

Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award Winner in Robotika Category

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The Design

About ARTificial Robot Pintore Autonomoa

ARTificial giza egiletzarik gabe ia arte-lanak sortzen dituen robot pintore autonomo bat da. Sare adversario sortzaile batek erretratu berri bat sortzen du, eta algoritmo berritzaile batek irudi digitala koordenada bihurtzen du. Ondoren, robot industrial batek erretratua olio-margo akrilikoz margotzen du. Bi botoiak sakatu ondoren, makinak ausaz gai bat hautatzen du, margoa hartzen du, brotxa garbitzen du eta lana amaitu arte lan egiten du. Zur, hormigoi eta altzairuzko oinarri batek funtzionamendu segurua bermatzen du. Instalazioak zalantzan jartzen du artea sortzea izaki adimendunei bakarrik dagokien.

The Recognition

About the Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award

ARTificial Robot Pintore Autonomoa Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award irabazlea da, sormenak, asmamenak eta zorroztasunak bereizten dituzten diseinu bikainei ematen zaien aitorpen oso prestijiotsua. Brontze-mailako irabazleak trebetasunez beteriko eta nabarmenki sortzaileak diren artefaktuak dira, beren diseinatzaileen esperientzia zabala, irudimena eta ekimena egiaztatzen dutenak. ARTificial Robot Pintore Autonomoa oso estimatua, miretsia eta maitea den objektua izatea espero da, nabarmenki profesionala eta berritzailea dena. Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award irabazi duen diseinu honek artearen, zientziaren, diseinuaren eta teknologiaren praktika onenak biltzen ditu eta xehetasunei ematen dien arretagatik bikaina da. ARTificial Robot Pintore Autonomoa beharrak bikain asetzen dituen, desirak ukitzen dituen, sentimenduak xarmatzen dituen eta jakin-mina erakartzen duen lana da.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This robot is among the first fully autonomous machines which create art with barely any human authorship. Upon starting the system, the installation generates a completely new portrait with artificial intelligence. A novel algorithm converts the digital AI art into coordinates and the robot then paints it on canvas with acrylic. The sculpture works without human supervision and challenges the belief of art creation as a property of human or artificial intelligence.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimensions: 3000 X 2000 X 1500mm
Weight: 450kg
Tags: artificial intelligence, ai, generative art, robot, industrial robot, algorithmic, software engineering, installation, robot, gan, generative adversarial network
Production Technology: The images are created with a generative adversarial network. The algorithm is written in Python with OpenCV and NumPy. The KUKA robot and the computer are connected with an Ethernet connection. The custom made foundation has been created out of wood, concrete, and steel. A novel algorithm has been developed for this project. The robot is capable of painting unlimited images without human supervision.
Design Challenge: This project required contacting a robot manufacturer, getting funds, transporting the robot and installing its numerous control interfaces. A foundation needed to be designed and constructed, to ensure the safe operation of this dangerous piece of industrial equipment. Finally, the author had to learn how to program a robot, as well as training the artificial Intelligence for multiple days on the most powerful GPU in existence and developing a completely novel algorithm for converting an AI image into coordinates in a safe manner.
Research: This project is based on image synthesis with artificial intelligence and the combination of machine learning with robotics. A novel algorithm and method have been developed, to research whether art-creation can be linked to intelligence and if this sculpture qualifies as an authentic artist. This research has been conducted in cooperation with KUKA and was supervised under the head of corporate research. The algorithmic basis of this image-to-coordinate-translation will be published in 2020.
Inspiration: Intelligence and consciousness seem to be almost exclusive to the human species. Similarly, the creation of art appears to be strongly bound to the intelligence of its author. This exclusivity between art creation and intelligence is so strong, that proving whether machines can be artists, is an essential step towards true artificial intelligence. As Art and intelligence still lack definitions, this project provokes discussions on whether this machine has these attributes.
Project Duration: This bachelor thesis has been created from February 2019 to July 2019. It demonstrated its ability during a two-day exhibition in August 2019, where it painted over 10 hours in front of a hundred visitors.
Operation Flow: The key element of this project is its autonomy. The robot decides what to generate on a random basis and paints as it wishes. This is an attempt to emulate human artists and their creative freedom as much as possible. Two buttons need to be pressed and the robot will start to generate a random image, take paint, clean its brush and will continue to paint until the artwork is finished.