It’s a simple robot that drags a pen around to draw on paper. [Tim] decided to build one that uses a simple skid-steer design to get around the page.

For several years, Patrick Tresset and Frederic Fol Leymarie of Goldsmiths University have been trying to teach a machine how to draw. The Aikon II project has a camera, some software, and a robotic ...

Robots are a great way to bring coding to life, and give a physical presence to both simple and complex coding problems.

Some of the robots also have a human-like ability to draw from memory, expanding on what we've seen from virtual assistants like Cortana or Siri.