Watch This Autonomous Robot Artist Draw Abstract Figures

It might still be a while before we have a true robot Picasso, but Mechanical Parts, a project by artist Matthias Dörfelt, shows we're at least on par with high school doodlers. Dörfelt created a Roomba-like robot, programmed it with a semi-random algorithm, then let it run loose on squares of paper. This is what he got: Robo Faber's Work Matthias Dörfelt The Robo Faber, as the little one's called, is going through an, uh, abstract phase right now, but it could, given enough time, eventually ...