Robo-scribe, the future of “hand made”

November 14th, 02007 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

  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?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 14th, 02007 at 3:31 am and is filed under Futures, Technology.

  • http://www.artandperception.com/2007/11/support-the-arts-%e2%80%93-turn-off-your-television.html David

    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 :)

  • http://blog.longnow.org/2007/11/20/longpen-makes-short-work-of-distance/ Long Views » Blog Archive » LongPen makes short work of distance

    [...] compares interestingly to the Robo-Scribe, blogged here just last week. Put them together and you can shortly look forward to being the proud owner of an [...]

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