Take a look at Peter Foucault's artistic robots, who wheel around the flat, white expanse of their own world, armed only with a sharpie and an existential mandate to draw stuff.
Preesnted at a party held last week at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, the tiny roamers reportedly drew a crowd all night long. Unlike the obedient rogo/turtle drawing bots from our schooldays, these ones concoct their own work randomly and in short bursts. Need a new work? Clap loudly, and art-bot wakes up and gets cracking.
This is just the kind of imbued behavior, both autonomous and mindless, that will one day get us in trouble!
UPDATE: Wired's Dylan Tweney went to the party: read his write-up here.
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