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Robots have been drawing pictures for several centuries. This circa 1770 automaton created by the Jaquet-Droz family of France draws four pictures. Image by Rama. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 France license.

With robots, artist simultaneously draws in 3 cities

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

Robots have been drawing pictures for several centuries. This circa 1770 automaton created by the Jaquet-Droz family of France draws four pictures. Image by Rama. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 France license.
Robots have been drawing pictures for several centuries. This circa 1770 automaton created by the Jaquet-Droz family of France draws four pictures. Image by Rama. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 France license.
VIENNA (AFP) – An Austrian artist on Thursday drew three pictures simultaneously in three European capitals thanks to two robots copying his every movement in real time in Britain and Germany.

Alex Kiessling worked in Vienna while a pair of orange industrial robots in London’s Trafalgar Square and Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz drew exactly the same picture of three human faces with the help of satellite transmissions.

Spectators in the German and British capitals could follow the artist in Vienna courtesy of giant screens while live streams kept audiences in Vienna up to date with events in Berlin and London.

“The drawings done by the robots are still a part of the original I create but they complement them and also serve a different function,” Kiessling said.