a robot drew this!

[FrozenHaxor2]

Really? Think "printer"

[Zombiefulicious]

i love how there are stray marks under it....wonder how many tries it took and how many people got hurt



[Ptrrrrrrrr]

Its so patient.. adorable...

[AviatorZER0]

thanks God that our education taxes are being used to create remedial handwriting machines

[TheRobot452]

Awesome! I wish I had those programming skills!

[ablair371]

humanity is so lazy now we need robots to write sentences for us

[leonidhaimov]

Nice man, how many commands?

[frodonet]

next one it's gonna write FML.

[masterofcats12]

A H U M A N T Y P E D T H I S

[TWOLF365]

I am sure that was a good investment!!!

[mckryall]

If I were you, If I were allowed, I would add more sensors for better handwriting.

[SkullTom812]

I find it hilarious that people don't understand the fact that it does the same thing as a printer. Albeit, we already have an amazing device that can draw much better than a human could ever think of doing with a pen. Also, it is simple to create programs that draws automatically on a computer.

[jeff5kyb]

jap did a robot that writes better than this...

[XeadXhot]

Thats awesome did you have to create your own character set?

[Invisibrah]

How does it know how hard to press on the paper?

[Bla118]

@Invisibrah it's programmed to go to a certain coordinate

[Invisibrah]

@Bla118

Hardcoded? Ew!

But I guess that's the only thing you can do without sensors.

[HR5308]

Why many people think, that this is all, what robots will be able to do in the the future?! It's only the beginning of the story.

[schlaznger]

robots should be able to swing a arc in X and Y axis. this would make a radius instead of sharp angles. Just a suggestion

[Biolizard4000]

I have a robot that has the ability to imitate and beautiful paintings, landscapes, and can create a 400 page essay under 3 minutes.

I shall call it ... A PRINTER.

[PerfectParasite]

Impressive.

[mazuxxxlt]

Is that was your homework?

[RebornAc3]

gj.

[poledancerz1]

wow, thats pretty good considering that its the robot doing it

[Telonelemon3]

Ide rather buy a printer.

[Crashmaster2K]

wow great

[primeproductions1]

awsome

[imoney20]

thats cool did u do it ur self

[mariokartrokz]

that was pretty cool

[EvilHero191]

That probably took a lot of coding! lol

[happymerc]

dude i should put a vid up of my robot drawer. it's an hp laserjet 4 lol. nice though

[METALIST1989]

sarah connor has no chance

[scott1506]

@METALIST1989 have you seen this boy?

[561inurface]

would hav been better it it could do it without messing up ( bottom left of paper -.-)

[gunblade64]

Ehm, this technique exists for already many many years.

It's called "Plotting".

You know... the same technique to build blueprints for the house you're living in?

[linuxrobotdude]

I would have made it say something like "A robot was here"

[funkyX000]

That is one awesome S. =D

[nalsuR1997]

only straight lines, no curved :p Humans Owns ROBOTS

[mop65]

Sadly they don't, the robot you see is quite basic - modern ones can mimic human motion and I've used some 6 axis robots that can draw circles etc.

Look up some of the recent robots to see just how fast they can write/draw. A classic example is using robots to forge signatures, pretty cool for a robot.

[spacejames12]

wow. signatures and circles. thats soooo advanced. we're all just lucky we won't be around when they invent the robot that can think for itself and then it uses its super awesome thinking skillz to rebel with the other robots and kill us all. when this happens, blame the japanese and chinese.

[logitech4873]

Are you implying robots can't do curves?

look at every other industrial robot out there, i'm talking about those that can do just about everything requiring you to move a hand around.

[Psychentist]

Now let's see all the haters and nothing special commenters build one.

[longtada]

nothing special

[MUDSWAT]

But it did it upside-down and backwards.

[gummel82]

even a milling machine could do this...this is nothing special

[MadCatVII]

isn't that for surgery

[gravizt]

its just what its programmed to do. any industrial robot could do that if programmed to.

[zildjian5o5]

Its basically a shit wannabe printer!

[8bitPikachu]

@zildjian5o5

at least it dosen't say printer is low on ink all the time

[lee155912000]

Lmfao XD

[Lievcocijo]

@zildjian5o5 haha! mid life crisis perhaps?

[zildjian5o5]

@Lievcocijo Indeed!

[meowsers450]

the robot has bad grammar

[cronin098]

a robot drawed this?

[meowsers450]

all caps, it wont get [ast elementary.

[gabdalf2000]

I cannot understand what is so special about it, the manipulator (or however you call that) has some hard coded patterns for letters and it just prints them one by one and then it goes to the next line.

It is just like any industrial robot which are around since 1950s...

[camoy0]

my printer is a little bit faster than yours dude.

just buy a printer it is a lot more efficient than this piece of sh-it

[Master3Sap]

Why waste your time when you can use a printer. lol

[guitarguru208]

ok so this vid was made in 2007, im sure by this time the hardware is like 100X better right? not saying that this isnt good

[CALUCATCEPS]

if i had one of these robots, i would make it draw penises all day

[fraidoonj]

@CALUCATCEPS if ur a male then that is just wrong

[3zoozM]

@CALUCATCEPS penises with sharp tips.

[FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7]

@CALUCATCEPS ummm...ok...

[grifkiller]

@CALUCATCEPS seriously dude?

[Wherethehellzarnie]

@CALUCATCEPS 

[TheChester987]

wait so we r paying these eggheads loads of money to do this??

[khsrunner2008]

We're paying these 'eggheads' money to do this because similar concepts can be applied to robots that can do more useful things. That robot could be holding a welding torch or a glass etching tool. Just because the early applications of a technology aren't practical doesn't mean the technology is useless. Might as well have fun while prototyping.

[mypizzasburnt]

Dude! My 4 year old has better handwriting!

I know you can program better than that!

[Yakshinian]

Have you taken into account the limitations of the robot itself?

[rathymus]

@Yakshinian which are?

[99Dragonheartz99]

@mypizzasburnt im sure your computer have more knowledge then you.

[skywarp90]

that was great...

[Yakshinian]

Thanks!

[TKTK00]

i want my 1 minute and 19 seconds of my life back

and no one gets hurt

[Yakshinian]

The second option sounds more exciting.

[TKTK00]

okay now i'll proceed to hurt you through the internet!!!

XD

[SalSchwavach]

love it when people like u ask for their time back u watched it

[chrisb000]

My 3 year old son can write better !!

[Yakshinian]

Your 3 year old is probably a continuous path robot, not a point to point robot. He likely has more advanced technology and a greater number of joints on his side making his movements more accurate. You also probably spent more time programming him. In conclusion, it is not a fair comparison.

[chrisb000]

Fair comment, i retract my previous statement.

[davidcha503]

thats not very efficient.....lol

[Yakshinian]

What would you have done with the machine?

[6364gg2]

I would program it to shake my hand, then assemble a model at high speed!

[Yakshinian]

That would be cool. Good luck trying to get this particular robot to do anything at high speed.

[11ethan111]

My school has something like this

[Yakshinian]

Comment by DANthaaMAN1991 deleted because of profanity.

[IPunchaUInTheFace]

Pretty cool...

any particular use of a writing robot when we have printers?

[Finn1million]

A printer IS a writing robot! And drawing i spose.

[sizzlinjeff12]

thats pretty cool!

[DANthaaMAN1991]

fool you trippin it cant do anything it wasnt programed to do first

[Yakshinian]

So, then where is it copying it from? There are no letters in it's memory.

[DANthaaMAN1991]

its actually called copying, because it can't draw or write anything that it hasn't been taught to do.

[Yakshinian]

What is it copying it from?

[DANthaaMAN1991]

stop playin dumb..

[Yakshinian]

you first.

[ugk771]

what do you mean drew... thats writing

[Yakshinian]

"Writing" is a subset of "drawing." The machine doesn't know what it means, so I thought drawing was more appropriate.

[ugk771]

lol subset reminds me of math... will i guess so... eh thats still pretty cool... its like your homework servant

[hottyhot53]

thast awsome ehow long did it take to progrem it??

[Yakshinian]

The programming probably took an hour, and only because I kept messing up. Charting the points took the most time.

[hottyhot53]

ohh icc i would get confused hahah

[Flackon]

Should be titled: "A guy drew this using a robot"

[Yakshinian]

I didn't draw it, the robot did. I programmed it.

[Flackon]

If you want to get technical, the pen drew it, the robot was just holding and moving it.

[Yakshinian]

I thought drawing was the action of holding and moving to make forms. Otherwise, we would say that artist's pens were drawing, but that is not what is said.

[kevinguy70296]

pfff... looks like a etch-a-sketch drew it

[superscatboy]

I bet your robotic arm is way better, huh?

[dukefvr41]

what kind of robotic arm is this and where did you get it?

[iloveemil95]

"wrote" this.

[Yakshinian]

"Writing" is a subset of "drawing." The machine doesn't know what it means, so I thought drawing was more appropriate.

[Zeeanime]

I thought It actually drawing a picture or something

[Yakshinian]

It is! A wonderful picture of letters!

[hibbity123]

Thats a Scorebot ER-IV!

My ER-III;s cntroll pc died and i cant find software anywhere.

[hibbity123]

thats a Scorbot ER-IV!!

my scorbot ER-III's controll computer died and I cant get the software for it anymore.

[Ronni430]

I want one to do my homework, is that possible? :P

[LostxXxPage]

i bet it is, you can make are really simple code to do math, so.. i think thats the only thing it can do though XD unless you have a totally awesome programer friend that can program it so it can look up information on the internet and come up with "answers in its own words" for other subjects like English, idk though XD thatd be awesome x]

[StickerMedia]

Instead of going up first, you can make it go to the position its in before it goes down again, so it goes up diagonally, not straight up.. :) i will be learning CNC soon.. ^^

[greekman3000]

im starting my own project and was wondering after i built the robot arm and all... how do i set it up to draw out the image, picture, letters, etc? like a cnc machine but just x,y plane, but it will be the whole robotic arm moving to form that x,y plane... how will i be able to perform this??

[Yakshinian]

What is controlling it? Are you using a PC to control it? If so, what sort of program? Is it vector (continuous curve) or point-to-point?

[greekman3000]

im planning in using a pc to control the process... but i don't know how to get the software up.. do i need to code it on my own or are there programs out there that i just set the motor variables based on the servos and the rest the program will automate?

the hardware part im good on.. its the easiest.. all i need to overcome is the program end. i guess both in a way since i want it to draw an image as accurate as possible

[olikorri]

lol???

[SnowGryphon]

This is actually pretty easy to do :/.. Was this a project for school? or something you did on your own time?

[Yakshinian]

Eh, it was cobbled together somewhere between one and two hours for a school assignment. Plotting the points on graph paper took the longest amount of time.

[SnowGryphon]

yeah, I imagine so.

You should try making a sumo car! Those things are so much fun :). My friend and I made one for a school project and we won with it.

[BlackDiamond6701]

lol

[wenhaothomas]

A robot "wrote" this

[Yakshinian]

"Writing" is a subset of "drawing." The machine doesn't know what it means, so I thought drawing was more appropriate.

[wenhaothomas]

ok, i guess i'll take that as a valid argument

[Rogue7892]

lol?

[Yakshinian]

lol.

[disaster323]

i guess you need really big robot hands to do something like this

[Yakshinian]

Nah, I just used normal human hands. Graph paper helps though. ;)

[ThorpeParkNewCoaster]

cool

[dednrurc]

Are you Tony Stark?

[Cr4ckerjake]

next thing you know, they'll be spraying graffiti

[METROIDBUSTERM]

Cool

[Jckojcko]

ha ha ha. That robot writes better/ neater then me! Very well done!

[Badbugz93]

thats really cool! how long did it take?

[ProgramerGirl]

Wow! You programmed that yourself?

[TaylorMk2002]

This is awesome. This Deserves ALOT more veiws.