PIX18 / Creative Machines Lab

Columbia University

Mechanical Engineering

Captain: Hod Lipson

The PIX18 project aims to build robots and software capable of creating original artwork in oil on canvas. The project has gone through three generations of systems - the first was an articulated arm and the latter were repurposed gantry robots. The software was developed from scratch and is continuously learning and evolving. PIX18, the robot that painted these images, resides in Manhattan. See http://www.hodlipson.com/robotic-art.html

Original Artwork


Pink
Echo
Fire
Field

Re-Interpreted Artwork


Horses
Imaginary Flower
House
Girl
Man
Cat

Previous work gallery ( not eligible for competition )


Lenon
The Fork
Woodstock crowd cheering
Flowers
Apples
Bolt
Hendrix
Walter Benjamin