TEDx Talks
In this charming short talk, technology optimist Gerry Chen shares lessons learned from designing a robot that paints graffiti art.
Inventions featured designed in collaboration with: Tristan Al-Haddad, Sereym Baek, Milind Chandramohan, Juan-Diego Flórez, William Duncan, Harsh Muriki, Wanli (Michael) Qian and Derrick Jordan Richardson
Technologist Gerry Chen envisions a future where robots will be universally perceived as empowering vs threatening.
His fascination with robotics and autonomous vehicles began after watching a 2006 documentary about the DARPA Grand Challenge featuring self-driving cars. This passion persisted throughout his years pursuing an undergraduate degree at Duke University when he co-led the Duke Electric Vehicles team that broke the Guinness Book of World Records for vehicle fuel efficiency in 2018 and 2019.
Gerry is now a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing where he studies artist-robot collaboration. He has also authored several publications in the fields of robot art, optimal control, and agricultural robotics. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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Gerry here – in addition to those collaborators listed in the description, thanks so much to my advisors Frank Dellaert, Seth Hutchinson, and Sang-won Leigh whose names seem to have gotten lost on their way to the description 🙂
Love the project and Idea. To me this transformed the fear of "losing artistic jobs to AI" to hopefulness for the future and seeing innovative ideas to make creating art easier. I also loved the end piece where you motivate people for science and tech