Robo-scribe, the future of “hand made”
November 14th, 02007 by Alexander Rose
The German art group Robotlab has re-purposed an industrial robot to “hand” write a Martin Luther bible. While in this instance there is not much feeling in the characters, one could easily imagine an algorithm that randomly introduces small errors to make it feel more hand made. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to order “manuscripts” of your favorite books on demand?
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Posted on November 15th, 2007 at 8:48 am
If the movie and tv studios find out about this I’m sure they’ll be buying several – hoping they can be programmed to write scripts :)
Posted on November 20th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
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