Robots may be taking our jobs throughout agriculture and industry, but the the duty of defacing architecture is likely to remain in the hands of humans for the immediate future if this semi-autonomous spray-paint drone is any evidence.
Devised by muralist/hacker/mad genius KATSU, this R/C quadcopter replaces the conventional E-O sensor gimbal with a custom rig designed to hold and fire a can of spray paint while aloft.
While the artist has demonstrated the drone’s capabilities on large pieces of canvas as part of the Silicon Valley Contemporary art show, he is confident the system could be used to reach otherwise inaccessible sections 0f walls or fences. However, it currently is too unwieldy for anything other than abstract artistic expression. As he told Motherboard:
To a large degree, it’s up to the drone. It’s like, I’m telling this device to basically accommodate this new attached payload that has an…
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