As a bonus, it’s easy to swap out the pen, so multicolored designs can be drawn in multiple passes. We’ve seen other robot drawing builds before, too, like this capable portrait artist.

High School students from Grand Rapids, Kentwood and Flint are showing visitors to ArtPrize how to navigate robots they built that can draw, as part of free education programs.

The goals for the robot were to have an easy to build, easy to program robot that did something interesting, and was also low-cost so the workshop participants could take it home and continue to ...

How Watching Robots Create Art Changes Our Perception The study involved 60 participants who evaluated simple still-life drawings supposedly created by robots.