Get a tattoo from a robot?

WTF ! What if tomorrow, instead of a tattooist, an electronic hand takes over your skin? This hypothesis is becoming more and more reliable.

Pierre Emmanuel Meunier and Johan Da Silveira, two French engineers at App Match Audiences, have created a robot that uses 3D printer technology to adapt it to tattooing. This new technology is presentedition during a seminar in San Francisco, he received a strong echo across the Atlantic.

in accordance with Motherboard, area for tattoo “First you need to scan to transmit information to the robot. This area is then converted into graphics parameters in the software so that it can apply the desired tattoo to the skin surface. " 

However, if you are on the move, the results will of course be disastrous. Tattooed does not adapt to body movements, and the guinea pigs who agreed to take the first tests were restricted to straitjackets.

The world's first industrial robot tattoo from Pier 9 on Vimeo.

If two creators say that they were surprised by the number of orders made by the tattoo artists themselves, we can also tell you that we are a little doubtful. It's hard to imagine that this machine will replace our good old tattooists, and even more so since this is not what we want from tattooing.

Arrival Tattooed  therefore, an important question is asked: can art and technology coexist? Broad discussion.

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