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Salvador DaBot, the portraitist robot

Performance @ Google, Mountain View, USA

Salvador DaBot, so-called by its fathers due to fancy moustache and beret add-ons, is an artist who draws protraits of the persons it meets. Such an expensive printer has the advantage of using a real pencil, providing to its customers the impression of a real drawing experience, which it is!

Technically, the robot captures a photo using its integrated webcams, extracts the contours of captured face, and then computes strokes useful to render nice shades of grey. Moreover, rather than drawing the lines like a normal printer usually does, Salvador draws surfaces, one after the others, which looks more natural.

Finally, because of its well-known artistic talents, Salvador DaBot was invited to the Google Zeitgeist'08 event, where it spent hours and used many pencils to realize several masterpieces of the guests invited to this event.