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An Estonian inventor built a wall-climbing robot named Albert that uses AI to spray-paint murals on buildings, covering up to 240m² per day, 100x faster than manual painting.

i can't get enough of these DIY robotics projects this Estonian inventor built a robot that spray-paints images onto the sides of buildings he wanted to put murals on buildings without the scaffolding, crews, and the weeks of manual painting... so he spent years building a wall-climbing robot that prints them instead. here's how it works: 1. you start with any image 2. AI breaks that image down into thousands of tiny colored dots 3. those dots turn into instructions telling the robot exactly where to move and when to fire paint 4. the robot climbs the wall on Kevlar cables, with little propellers pushing it flat against the building 5. it fires paint dot by dot across the surface of the wall 6. up close it's just scattered dots, but from the street it snaps into a full mural the robot muralist is nicknamed Albert (after the Einstein mural it first painted) Albert can cover a whole 240-square-meter wall in a single day, up to 100x faster than a crew painting by hand he's already used it on real buildings across Estonia and even the walls of Tesla's factory in Berlin my favorite part is knowing a prompt someone typed on a laptop is now four stories tall on a real wall lol
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i can’t get enough of these DIY robotics projects

this Estonian inventor built a robot that spray-paints images onto the sides of buildings

he wanted to put murals on buildings without the scaffolding, crews, and the weeks of manual painting…

so he spent years building a wall-climbing robot that prints them instead.

here’s how it works:

  1. you start with any image

  2. AI breaks that image down into thousands of tiny colored dots

  3. those dots turn into instructions telling the robot exactly where to move and when to fire paint

  4. the robot climbs the wall on Kevlar cables, with little propellers pushing it flat against the building

  5. it fires paint dot by dot across the surface of the wall

  6. up close it’s just scattered dots, but from the street it snaps into a full mural

the robot muralist is nicknamed Albert (after the Einstein mural it first painted)

Albert can cover a whole 240-square-meter wall in a single day, up to 100x faster than a crew painting by hand

he’s already used it on real buildings across Estonia and even the walls of Tesla’s factory in Berlin

my favorite part is knowing a prompt someone typed on a laptop is now four stories tall on a real wall lol

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