ARTificial Robot Wodziyendetsa Wojambula Zithunzi by Titus Ebbecke is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award in Mapangidwe a Roboti, Makina Odziyendetsa ndi Zodziyendetsa Competition Category.
BronzeRoboti· 2020
ARTificial Robot Wodziyendetsa Wojambula Zithunzi
Client: University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt
Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award Winner in Roboti Category
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About ARTificial Robot Wodziyendetsa Wojambula Zithunzi
ARTificial ndi robot wodziyendetsa yekha yemwe amajambula zithunzi popanda kuthandizidwa kwenikweni ndi munthu. Njira ya generative adversarial network imapanga chithunzi chatsopano cha munthu, ndipo algorithm yatsopano imasandutsa chithunzichi kukhala manambala oyimira malo. Kenako robot yamakampani imajambula chithunzicho pa chinsalu pogwiritsa ntchito utoto wa acrylic. Mabatani awiri akakanikizidwa, makinawa amasankha mutu wojambulidwa mwadzidzidzi, amatenga utoto, amayeretsa burashi, ndipo amagwira ntchito mpaka ntchito yajambulidwa itamaliza. Maziko a matabwa, konkire ndi chitsulo amathandizira kuti ntchitoyi izichitika mosatekeseka komanso motetezeka. Ntchitoyi imafunsa funso lokhudza ngati kupanga zaluso ndi ntchito yomwe imangogwirizana ndi zolengedwa zanzeru zokha.
The Recognition
About the Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award
ARTificial Robot Wodziyendetsa Wojambula Zithunzi ndi mmodzi mwa opambana a Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award, kuzindikirika kolemekezeka kwambiri komwe kumaperekedwa kwa mapangidwe abwino kwambiri omwe amaonekera ndi luso lolenga, kuchenjera ndi nzeru zakuthwa. Opambana a Bronze ndi zinthu zaluso kwambiri ndi zolenga modabwitsa zomwe zimatsimikizira zochitika zazikulu, kulingalira ndi kuchenjera kwa opanga awo. ARTificial Robot Wodziyendetsa Wojambula Zithunzi akuyembekezeka kukhala chinthu choyamikiridwa, chosirira ndi chokondedwa, chaukatswiri wapadera ndi chatsopano. Mapangidwe opambana Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award awa amaphatikiza machitidwe abwino kwambiri a luso, sayansi, kapangidwe ndi ukadaulo ndipo ndi abwino kwambiri chifukwa cha kusamala kwawo zazing'ono. ARTificial Robot Wodziyendetsa Wojambula Zithunzi amakwaniritsa zosowa mokongola, kukhudza zilakolako, kukopa mitima ndi kudzutsa chidwi.
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.
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