Is it possible to effectively communicate tactile pedagogical messages in a heuristic tele-haptic proto-sculpting environment? Let’s try rephrasing that. What if you could use a robot to help teach someone a creative skill? Imagine guiding someone’s hand with a paintbrush. Now imagine guiding a bunch of peoples’ hands with paintbrushes, using a series of linked robots.
From [Morgan Rauscher] comes Art-Bot 2.0 — a creative learning tool that provides an entirely new way to teach painting, sculpting, or pretty much anything requiring dexterity or a tool. We covered Art-Bot 1.0 a few years ago, but in case you’ve forgotten, it was an eight-foot tall chainsaw wielding robot inside of an enclosure. Even children, using the remote, could play with chainsaws.
Constructed with the help of the Hexagram Institute, Art-Bot 2.0 is made up of three rugged servo driven robot arms. One is for the teacher, to guide movements, one performs those same movements on a work-piece, and a third robot arm allows a student to feel what is happening.
A small haptic feedback pad on the arm even provides a sensation of touch to the students hand.
This is basically an extension of the technology [Wolf Tronix] showed us last week, on feeling force through a servo.
Is this the way people will learn certain hands-on skills in the future? What do you think?
might be okay for teaching muscle memory tasks, but teaching artistry? Sorry, you can teach how to hold and move the brush, but artistry comes from the imperfection of each artist.
now, like I said there is a case for teaching things that require a certain amount of muscle memory or a precise touch to complete. Soldering fine pitch components comes to mind right off.
Nice job ! Really nice .
But, why not just using 2 robotic arms instead of 3 ? The “teacher” could handle 1 robotic arm and those movements could be transfered directly to the student’s robotic arm. Am I wrong?
I presume the student’s bot is feedback only – no output.
Given the very limited adoption of haptic arms among digital sculptors, I remain skeptical that they will find much adoption in the teaching of art. In art school I never saw a professor teaching drawing, clay tools, etc by holding a student’s hand.
Plus so much of being an artist is developing a sense of aesthetics- one could master everything there is about creating brush-strokes and still be utterly lost with color theory or composition, just like one can learn to type and even master a vocabulary but also be unable to write a decent short story.
very good, it would be interesting control via android
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So many comments from people who have never tried this technology – HAHA – the ignorance is astounding. These comments feel like a smear campaign with no first hand experiences to speak of. I feel like this would work – I would want to try it first to see.