Creativity & Robots

The Interactive Robot Painting Machine makes use of sounds from its environment (for example: conversation sounds, audios) and uses those sounds through its own mechanism to influence the painting and the progress of it.

IBM in collaboration with The Institute of Culinary Education teamed up to create a cognitive cooking technology that inspired even some of the greatest chefs.

They trained Chef Watson on data about what people find appealing at a molecular level (to learn the concept of pleasant) and on a wide range of recipes to master food pairing (to get an understanding of synergies). Also, they based on the data base, they told Watson to produce a recipe which has never been produced before to get the element of surprise. Finally, the robot was taught to cook and it can be considered as one of the most creatives chefs now.

So far, we looked at robots that are creatives themselves, but how about robots that can teach us creativity?

It has been proven that children who interact with a creative robot exhibited a higher level of creativity compared to children who interacted with a non-creative robot.

The creative robot is programmed to stimulate verbal creativity, figural creativity, construction creativity and divergent thinking through a set of games.