Robo Art- Your New Collectible?

If you ever tried owning the paintings of the grand masters, you would know that they are quite a pocket draining exercise. However many collectors consider them an intelligent investment. Would you consider investing in art made by a robot? Apparently, robots are now being programmed to create copies of the paintings of the finest artists that ever lived.

Vincent van Bot is one of the few robotic artists around who can create works of art comparable to the old masters. What’s more, there’s even a robot’s art gallery dedicated to showcasing it’s and other robot artists’ paintings. The most creative robots and their creators get to compete each year in an international contest with spectacular cash prizes.

Thailand’s Kasetsart University built a robot that can mimic an artist this year. While CloudPainter, the team that stood first, used a machine learning system to generate vivid, sometimes outlandish portraits and landscapes. The algorithms being used are by the programmers of these robots are extremely intensive.

They work with different materials, using different techniques, to create pieces of art that have never been created by a robot before in the history of robotics. Although it can be argued that even with these science projects, the true creative genius lies with the human mind behind the finished product and not in the robot that completed it.