Tricked-Out Roomba Creates Amazing Abstract Paintings

It turns out, even a robotic vacuum cleaner can aspire to be a Picasso in the hands of Japanese engineer HYdeJII. Armed with four PET bottles of paint, HYdeJII reprogrammed his Roomba, affectionately called Head-kun, to drop just a dribble of paint in random motions over a large canvas turning the automated vacuum into a lean mean painting machine. So far, its creative aspirations has turned up two paintings called “Spring Wormhole0” in 2014 and the more recently completed “Spring Starburst.” With the question “What is a robot’s identity, what is its sense of beauty?” featured on HYdeJII’s ‘Tails of Head‘ project site, it looks like Head-kun is still in search of his true artistic identity.