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 ...

A British artist spent 10 years teaching this robot how to draw, and it totally shows ...

Today, artist Alan Nolan is doing the robot... Now get some pens and paper and have a go yourself!

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.

The robotic turtle above can't wield katanas, eat pizza or shout cowabunga, but it can still do something awesome: draw big sand sketches on the beach. It's named "Beachbot" and was developed by a ...