Since the dawn of industrialization, what we perceive as art has changed dramatically, thanks ultimately to mechanization. The explosion of personal computers and Moore’s Law in the latter half of the 20 th century further drove mechanization and computation to set the stage for a new type of masterpiece: robotics (Intel.com). Vitruvian Man What was once reserved for sculptures and paintings, humanoids became a new focus of idealized beauty. During the Renaissance, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci focused on this idealized, perfect human form, as seen in his Vitruvian Man; but recently, humanoid designers have taken up this focus on realistic human idealization (Stanford.edu). Dr. Dennis Hong, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA, has succeeded in this blending of art and science into CHARLI, “the United States’ first full-size autonomous human robot” (Hong). CHARLI is able to walk in any direction, as well as kick, and perform several upper body t
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