Robotics Technology Center

Paparazzi Bots Will Chase You Down Until You Love Them

The Paparazzi Bots are autonomous robots which is a tech-hybrid camera and cameraman. It is comprised of multiple cameras and sensors on a custom-built rolling platform. They move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles.

The robots stand at human height. With the help of infrared sensors, the robots move toward their “lucky” victims and then realizes their single goal - taking photos of people. Each robot decides whether or not to take pictures of particular people based on such things as whether a person is smiling or not.

Once a person or group is selected, the robots automatically stop. They adjust their focus and then take shots. The images that they took will then be uploaded in the Web, which makes their lucky models instant celebrities, at least for a little while.

“As we create and employ new high-tech tools, these technologies also structure and change us, forcing us to evolve as a species. These new works foretell a time when domestic robots will be living amongst us.”, says Ken Rinaldo, a faculty member in the Department of Art in the Ohio State University and the inventor of the Paparazzi Bots.

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