Media and Press
2013
Gold Stories (The people behind the stories who made Goldsmiths what it is today):
Patrick Tresset, Researcher, Dept. of Computing: "There is something special in human-robot relations. People seem to always trust robots." February 2013.
2012
TN2 (cultural magazine supplement to Trinity News, the student newspaper of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland):
"A portrait by the artist formerly known as man", by Art Editor Gabija Purlytė, Issue 5, pp. 10-11, December 2012.
Le Monde, Science et Techno. supplement (in French, 1/12/2012):
"Patrick Tresset, l'artiste et son double", par Catherine Mary, p.7.
Slate.com (Nov. 15, 2012):
"How robots saved an artist's sanity" by Torie Bosch.
French version on slate.fr (Dec. 29, 2012): "Comment les robots ont sauve' Patrick Tresset de la folie".
El Economista (Nov. 14, 2012):
"Simpatia por los robots", by Manuel Lino.
Humanoides.fr (in French, 28/10/2012):
The Times (Oct. 11, 2012):
"Scientist builds portrait-sketching robot", by Daisy Greenwell.
TimeOut London (Oct. 10, 2012):
"Close encounters: have your portrait drawn by '6 robots named Paul' ", by Sonia Barber.
Planete Robots (in French, no.17, September/October):
Paul & Peter the robots as draughtmen, in the "Dossier": "Faites entrer les artistes" (pp.70-71).
Communications of the ACM (Vol. 55 No. 9, Pages 42-43, September):
Portrait of Turing for the "Viewpoint: Alan and I" by C. H. Papadimitriou.
BCS, Computer Art Image of the Month (September):
Financial Times, How to spend it (July 1, 2012):
In "A bloomin' good art event in London", by Vicki Reeve.
Sapere, (in Italian, no.4, July/August):
front cover, portrait by AIkon1 of Alan Turing.
IA-Robots, by Roland Barthes (in French, May 31):
El Pais, by Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana (March 21):
Telegraph, by John O'Ceallaigh (February 9):
Artistic robot on Brazilian BBC TV (February 1):
AIkon on Russian blog Roboting.ru (January 29):
Independent, by Nick Clark (January 26):
Patrick Tresset on The Radio 2 Arts Show :
Robot art on ITV (January 17) :
2011
Patrick Tresset's robots draw faces and doodle when bored, Mark Brown, Read here on wired.co.uk
A Robot Hand That Draws Artfully Demented Portraits , John Pavlus, Read here on FastCoDesign
Sketching the future (Rachel Agius) Read Here on Times of Malta
Meet "Paul" and "Pete", The Sketching Robots, Kevin Holmes, Read here on thecreatorsproject.com
Cybernetic doodling, Paul Squires, Read here on imperica.com
2010
Aikon2 in Blueprint magazine
March 2010, Issue #288 p. 90
Aikon2 on Geek Brief TV, presented by Cali Lewis
18 February 2010, GBTV #709
Aikon2 on BBC's Tech Know program, presented by Ellie Gibson, article by Mark Ward.
4 March 2010
Aikon2 on the New Scientist TV, report by Sandrine Ceurstemont.
1 March 2010
And in The New Scientist (paper) 03/04/2010
Aikon2 on BFM TV (24h French news channel), "Culture Geek" program.
9 March 2010
El Mundo's scientific magazine "Eureka"...
18 April 2010
www.designBoom.com (USA) http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/9163/aikon-drawing-robot.html
www.enGadget.com (USA) http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/aikon-2-robot-sketches-the-human-face-uses-its-talent-to-meet-g/
www.journaldugeek.com (France) http://www.journaldugeek.com/2010/02/16/portrait-robot/
www.les-news-encapsulees.info (France)http://les-news-encapsulees.info/2010/02/16/le-robot-qui-dessine-les-visages/
www.singularityhub.com (USA)http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/25/cool-video-of-aikon-ii-robot-drawing-a-face-with-a-pen/
www.guanabara.info (Brazil) http://www.guanabara.info/?s=aikon+robot
www.designflux.co.kr (Korea) http://www.designflux.co.kr/first_sub.html?code=2522&board_value=dailynews
www.bright.nl (Holland) http://www.bright.nl/robot-tekent-portretten
www.overclockzone.com (Thailand)
www.slashdot.org (USA) http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/14/0155238
www.schockwellenreiter.de (Germany)
http://www.beritateknologi.com(Indonesia)http://www.beritateknologi.com/aikon-2-si-robot-seniman-jago-bikin-sketsa-wajah-manusia/
http://www.al3lom.com/techblog/ (Arabic)
http://elmondo.blog.hu/2010/02/23/a_nyomtatom_muvesz_et#more1767073 (hungarian)
http://espresso.repubblica.it/multimedia/tecnologia/23077916/5 (Italian)
http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/il-ritratto-lo-fa-il-braccio-robot/42660?video (Italian)
http://www.zobot.ru/tags/aikon-2 (Russian)
http://dergiweb.com/bilim-teknik/yuz-portresi-cizebilen-ressam-robot-aikon-2-3572(Turkish)