Xirrou: the artistic-spider

“The year is 2058 and you’re bored of the drab walls of your home. Your change in mood is sensed and from a discreet corner a strange spider-like creature whirs into life and scampers across the wall. You’re about to shriek and then you realize there’s nothing to worry about; it’s just your handy, Artificial Intelligent artistic robot, stamping out a Mona Lisa on the wall for you. Folks, let me present to you the Da Vinci of the future: xirrou.”
 
This is how begins the presentation article of a weird item posted on line on the web-site Yanko Design and that might change the way we will be able to make our homes unique. The cyber-artist has two main components:
 
The first one features a “stamp” located in the lower part of the robot (the closest to the wall), it will be 16 square centimetres big and will allow to print on walls and ceilings.
 
The second part features an 8 inks cartridge positioned on the upper part of the machine and hooked to the first component by a supplying pipe.
 
Every component is provided with 5 feet, located around the central ring, and each foot has 3 servo-motor. These feet have a special foil that makes the climbing of the walls easy. It is possible to give the robot some painting patterns, otherwise you can use its software to look up in the Internet the images you wan to have printed on your wall. A bright, colourful membrane in the central part of xirrou makes it a stylish item, aesthetically pleasant within your homely environment. The project of this artistic-spider will be terminated by 2058; for some reasons it is thought that by that year people will be ready to “welcome” it in their houses. As a matter of fact, this painter-robot raised some controversies already, especially from the artists who wonders if it is right to destroy the last bits of creativity, leaving it in the hands of a “wall printer”.
 
We shall see, what do you think?
 
More info at:
 
http://www.yankodesign.com (in English- site about design and technology)
 
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Translated by Saul Bassanello