If you grew up playing with LOGO on an old 8-bit computer, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a drawbot. It’s a simple robot that drags a pen around to draw on paper. [Tim] decided ...

Robots are a great way to bring coding to life, and give a physical presence to both simple and complex coding problems.

Some of the robots also have a human-like ability to draw from memory, expanding on what we've seen from virtual assistants like Cortana or Siri.

For several years, Patrick Tresset and Frederic Fol Leymarie of Goldsmiths University have been trying to teach a machine how to draw. The Aikon II project has a camera, some software, and a robotic ...