The winners of the very first Robot Art Contest have been announced!
Andrew Conru, the founder of the social networking company FriendFinder Networks, hosted the contest to show that robots can have a creative side. There were two categories in the contest: Telerobotics, which is for robots that collaborate with humans, and Fully Automated painting robots.
Here are the winners:
The fourth place prize of $10,000 went to e-David, built by the University of Konstanz. It was submitted in the fully automated category.
The third place prize of $12,000 went to NoRAA from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy. It was entered in the Fully Automated category.
"Extremely interesting and innovative work using robotics… I would definitely add one of these works to my personal collection," a judge wrote about the robot's work.
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