Robots Made These Paintings and They're Very, Very Good

Entries for the 2018 RobotArt competitions are in. The top 10 teams have been announced, and you can see the robot-painters' impressive works in an online gallery. This year's first-place artist, CloudPainter used machine learning to generate portraits and landscapes (including a re-imagination of Cezanne). The second place team chose impressionistic paintings with "a high level of skill with brushstrokes," and the third place team programmed a robot "brushstroke by stroke," using haptic recording and playback to generate gorgeous reproductions of Van Gogh landscapes. For the first time this year, patrons can also buy AI produced paintings at the Seattle Art Fair on August 2-5th.