January 28, 2008

A very religious robot

Three German artists have reprogrammed an industrial robot to copy the complete Bible as translated by Martin Luther. The robotic scribe has worked day and night during 7 months in a Karlsruhe museum to write the 66 volumes and the 3.5 million letters of the full German version of the Bible. The robot, named ‘bios [Bible]’ has used a 900-meter-long roll of paper and a calligraphic style picked from a 15th century German font called ‘Schwabacher.’ The end result will be cut into pages displayed inside the museum. But read more…

If you liked this post / blog, buy me a BEER! Related EntriesMicrosoft buys Multimap: online geography shows its value
Intel releases ultra-tiny SSD [News]
That’s kinda a lot of spam, Dave
Fraudsters beware
Nerd auction held at Washington State University [News]

Source: Roland Piquepaille

Permalink • Print

Trackback uri

http://www.manoj.co.in/2008/01/28/a-very-religious-robot/trackback/

Track this entry

RSS Technorati Cosmos

Made with WordPress and an easy to customize WordPress theme • Boxed skin by Denis de Bernardy