Renowned artist Agnieszka Pilat has announced that she has trained three Boston Dynamics robot dogs to paint for the National Gallery of Victoria’s next exhibition. According to the press release made by the exhibitor, the robots named Spot will be trained for four months and their drawings will meet people at the exhibition.Robot painters are getting real
Boston Dynamics’ remarkable Spot robot is used for a variety of tasks across industries such as inspection, mapping, tracking, rescue and more. But now, Spot robots will get creative for the National Gallery of Victoria’s exhibition, which opens in Melbourne in December. For their work, the robots will paint on their own using sticks of oil paint on an acrylic-floor canvas attached to the wall. The process will be run autonomously by robots, but they will be pre-programmed with a series of brushstrokes to choose from when creating the artwork.
Artist Agnieszka Pilat has named a robot living with her as Basia and has stated that she sees it as a “friend”. “It’s like having a small child – at some point you have to let the child get on the bus on their own, and that’s how it feels,” Pilat said. Originally, Pilat was commissioned by Boston Dynamics to paint a portrait of Spot, but it looks like it’s taken a different turn.“Portraits reflect power in society – Andy Warhol painted celebrities, old portraits reflected the aristocracy. Now the power is going to the machine and it’s our obligation to really take care of it. It’s up to us, their parents, to educate and interact with them to be good citizens of the future,” Pilat said in a statement. used his statements. Although Spots’ current paintings are described as “often childlike,” Pilat has sold them to Silicon Valley dignitaries like telecommunications billionaire Craig McCaw and former Waymo CEO John Krafcik in recent years. He attributes this to a deliberate programming choice.
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