Robot Master Painter Constantly Adjusts Its Style – Video

I'd be tempted not to call the thing in the video above a robot. It's more like an automated bodiless limb, of a sort.

But I can't deny the feeling of awe when I see it paint portraits and pretty much anything else with the skill of a master artist.

The robot was developed by researchers from Keio University and is called e-David.

It doesn't actually paint itself though. Instead, it reproduces works of art, to an extent, much like a photocopier duplicates a page, only that it does it one brush stroke at a time.

E-David stands apart even from its peers though, because it can constantly readjust its stance.

Based on a camera feed, e-David keeps analyzing the paint strokes that have been added, and decides where the next stroke should go based on that. Watch the video above for a demo.