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 ...

Irish artist Alan Nolan has illustrated best-sellers like Gordon's Game, Fintan's Fifteen and the Sam Hannigan books - now he's keeping kids at home busy with his fun step-by-step drawing guides ...

The robotic turtle above can't wield katanas, eat pizza or shout cowabunga, but it can still do something awesome: draw big sand sketches on the beach. It's named "Beachbot" and was developed by a ...

The Beachbot is the latest creation to roll out of Disney Research, the result of a partnership between the Zurich, Switzerland branch of the lab and students at the engineering university ETH Zurich.

Is there a single kid out that who, at one time or other, didn’t wish their teacher was a robot? Well, thanks to a team of engineers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Learning at ...

Self-portraits by a robot artist have gone on display at the Design Museum. The life-size “ultra-realistic” android, named Ai-Da, is the first of its kind in the world, according to the London museum.