Teaching a machine to tattoo.
A tattoo machine is a needle oscillating at a few hundred hertz, a depth tolerance of a fraction of a millimeter, and a substrate that moves, bleeds and flinches. Automating it is a hard robotics problem and a hard skin problem at the same time.
Underway in the lab. More here soon.
Carson J. Bruns, Associate Professor, ATLAS Institute and the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder.
Carson J. Bruns