SprayPrinter hit the scene in early 2016 with its innovative app-controlled device that can sit on the head of any can of spray paint. Now the company has taken things to a new level, developing a prototype that can climb up and down walls to create large-scale murals.
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While it may be worthwhile programming robots to paint many identical objects, the painting of smaller-run items is still done manually. That could be about to change, however. Scientists are developing a system which will allow robots to figure out how to paint individual objects.
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Bird St in London has undergone something of a transformation recently, going from an underused offshoot to the "world's first Smart Street." Designed to showcase the High Street of the future, it merges pollution-busting and sustainable technology with a traffic-free shopping and dining experience.
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Hydrogen itself is seen as a key part of our clean energy future, but even better would be hydrogen produced using the power of the sun, rather than electricity from the grid. And what if you could make your house look pretty at the same time?
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Singapore's Housing & Development Board recently called for proposals to automate the painting of its high-rise buildings. In response, ELID Technology International and Nanyang Technological University teamed up to create a robotic system that does the job.
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Scientists at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology have created a thermoelectric coating that can be directly painted onto almost any surface to capture waste heat and turn it directly into electricity.
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If you ever fancied yourself as a graffiti artist but lacked the artistic skill, the original SprayPrinter device provided a way to fake it. Users could choose an image to create and then let the handheld printer spray as required. Now, there's an updated version that lets you fake it better.
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The electropollock by Dmitry Morozov has been designed as an homage to American expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, famous for his energetic drip painting works. It employs a similar method to get paint onto the rolling "canvas," but the end result is determined by music fed into the system.
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Spray paint is a notoriously tricky medium to control. Fortunately for would-be muralists everywhere, researchers have invented a "smart" spray paint system that can use regular cans of paint to re-create photo images as spray-painted murals on walls or other large surfaces.
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Sometimes, regular black just isn't good enough. That's why Surrey NanoSystems released its Vantablack coating two years ago. Now, in order to expand its possible applications, the material is available in a convenient spray-on form.
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