Robot artist ‘draws’ crowds at world’s top tech fair

A robot caricaturist that can draw an accurate likeness of its subject in just three minutes was wowing the crowds at the world’s biggest IT fair, but not every customer was satisfied.

The robot, designed by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute, takes a black-and-white picture of the subject, its computer brain then calculates the contrasts and contours of the face and it sketches what it “sees.”