Robotic Calligraphy

The Linz Art University’s Robot Lab developed Robotic Calligraphy that can be seen during the Creative Robotics exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center Linz. KUKA’s IIWA (intelligent industrial work assistant) robot takes a photograph and computes the brightness of each pixel. Mounted on the tip of the robot is a calligraphy pen, one end of which is tapered to a point and the other end is squared off. When the pixel is bright, the robot draws with the fine nib; when the point of light is darker, it switche