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Will 3D printers one day replace real tattoo artists?

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08-04-2014 | 10:47

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A group of three French design students modified a 3D printer to prove that robots can tattoo humans too.

The students, taking part in a challenge set by France's Culture Ministry, hosted by ENSCI les Ateliers, a famous design school in Paris, modified a MarkerBot 3D printer to give a volunteer the first inking by a robot.

Pierre Emm, Piotr Widelka and Johan Da Silveira took a period of 8 hours to make use of their digital materials and managed to hack the printer so that it could draw a perfect circle on skin, using a normal pen.

The students chose the circle to demonstrate the precision of the technology seemingly since circles are incredibly difficult to draw accurately.

Although the official challenge was over, the students remained determined to create their tattooing machine for real; they borrowed a manual tattoo-machine from an amateur tattooist and practiced getting the robot to etch the design on artificial silicone skin.

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