ARTificial Robotus Pingens Autonomus ab Titus Ebbecke

Opus ARTificial Robotus Pingens Autonomus a designatore Titus Ebbecke est victor maxime honoratus praemii praestigiosissimi 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Categoria Certaminis Robotica.

AesRobotica· 2020

ARTificial Robotus Pingens Autonomus

a Titus Ebbecke

Cliens: University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt

Victor praemii Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Categoria Robotica

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Designum

De ARTificial Robotus Pingens Autonomus

ARTificial est robotus pingens autonomus qui artem creat prope sine ulla auctoritate humana. Rete generativum adversativum novam imaginem gignit, et algorithmus novicius imaginem digitalem in coordinatas convertit. Robotus industrialis deinde effigiem in tela colore acrylico pingit. Duobus pulsis clavibus, machina argumentum fortuitum eligit, colorem sumit, penicillum purgat et laborat donec opus perfectum sit. Fundamentum ligni, concreti et ferri operationem tutam sustinet. Haec instructio quaerit num creatio artis solis entibus intelligentibus propria sit.

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De Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

ARTificial Robotus Pingens Autonomus victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur ARTificial Robotus Pingens Autonomus rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. ARTificial Robotus Pingens Autonomus necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

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Merita, sodales gregis et singula technica a designatore praebita.

Proprietates Singulares: 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.
Dimensiones et Involucrum: Dimensions: 3000 X 2000 X 1500mm
Weight: 450kg
Notulae: artificial intelligence, ai, generative art, robot, industrial robot, algorithmic, software engineering, installation, robot, gan, generative adversarial network
Technologia Productionis: 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.
Provocatio Designandi: 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.
Investigatio: 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.
Inspiratio: 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.
Duratio Operis: 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.
Cursus Operationis: 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.