{"id":114391,"date":"2020-10-14T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/robot-swarms-follow-instructions-to-create-art"},"modified":"2020-10-14T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:22:57","slug":"robot-swarms-follow-instructions-to-create-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/robot-swarms-follow-instructions-to-create-art","title":{"rendered":"Robot swarms follow instructions to create art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-swarms-follow-instructions-to-create-art.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robots for artists. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What if you could instruct a swarm of robots to paint a picture? The concept may sound far-fetched, but a recent study in open-access journal <i>Frontiers in Robotics and AI<\/i> has shown that it is possible. The robots in question move about a canvas leaving color trails in their wake, and in a first for robot-created art, an artist can select areas of the canvas to be painted a certain color and the robot team will oblige in real time. The technique illustrates the potential of robotics in creating art, and could be an interesting tool for artists.<\/p>\n<p>Creating art can be labor-intensive and an epic struggle. Just ask Michelangelo about the Sistine Chapel ceiling. For a world increasingly dominated by technology and automation, creating physical art has remained a largely manual pursuit, with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/paint\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">paint<\/a> brushes and chisels still in common use. There\u2019s nothing wrong with this, but what if robotics could lend a helping hand or even expand our creative repertoire?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intersection between robotics and art has become an active area of study where artists and researchers combine creativity and systematic thinking to push the boundaries of different art forms,\u201d said Dr. Mar\u00eda Santos of the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cHowever, the artistic possibilities of multi\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot systems<\/a> are yet to be explored in depth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots for artists. \ud83d\ude03 What if you could instruct a swarm of robots to paint a picture? The concept may sound far-fetched, but a recent study in open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI has shown that it is possible. The robots in question move about a canvas leaving color trails in their wake, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}