Finding a trusted artist to permanently brand your skin can take equally as long as deciding on the size, pattern, color and location on the body you want your print. To ease part of the decision-making process, there’s now a robot tattoo artist that can apply your next ink.
Though the surface of the body is curved and distinctive, the world’s first tattoo by an industrial robot seemed to go quite well all things considered. By scanning the body part and translating it into a language understood by the robot, a software can map the unique shape of a person’s body part to create designs that can be precisely applied onto the skin.
Watching a giant mechanical arm pierce the skin via needle point is sure to induce some degree of anxiety at first, though its certainly reassuring to know the team tested the contraption on countless prosthetic pieces before moving onto human flesh. While the practice is far from reaching commercialization (tattoo artists: your jobs are still safe), the new methodology for tattooing raises interesting questions surrounding our comfort level with the increasing intimacy of technology.
This article was written by Ido Lechner from PSFK and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.
