Vincent van BOT: Pocket-sized doodling robot draws almost 1,000 pre-sales in just 30 hours
- Line-us robot is like an automated 'prosthetic limb' that recreates your drawings
- It grips a pen much like a human hand to sketch out pictures drawn on screen
- The London-based designers say it will allow artists to send their work to friends
- The gadget exceeded its crowd funding goal of £39,000 in just under 30 hours
It is the must-have gadget for those who like to doodle.
Engineers have developed a pocket-sized robot that can recreate sketches on paper just as they were originally drawn, allowing them to be sent all over the world.
The Line-us robot, which its designers say works like an extension of the human hand, has raised £39,000 in just 30 hours on a crowd funding site.
Scroll down for video
The Line-us robot (pictured) is an extension of the human hand that allows you to doodle around or send and receive hand-drawn messages
The mini robot is essentially a USB-powered arm that connects to an app on your smartphone, tablet, MAC or PC.
By sketching on the screen using a finger, mouse, stylus or Apple Pencil, the user can then instruct the robot to recreate their masterpiece.
Line-us draws the image using a pen on paper in the same order the person who drew it did so you can see exactly how your friends' drawings came to fruition.
Anyone with the app can send their doodle straight to another person's Line-us, allowing sketches to be shared anywhere in the world.
The robot can draw on any writeable surface - from sketchbooks to fridges or even on a wall.
Line-us lets users save their drawings, send them as messages to friends or publish them to a public gallery.
This mini robot is essentially a USB-powered arm that connects to an app on your smartphone and then sketches out what has been drawn on the screen (pictured)
For those who are artistically challenged, the app also allows users to trace images from the photos on their device.
The robot was developed by Durrell Bishop, who teaches product and interaction design at the Royal College of Art in London, and Robert Poll, who has worked as a technologist for over 20 years.
The pair launched their product on Kickstarter on 1 February and has now attracted £59,000 worth of funding with 829 people backing their project.
The developer launched their product (pictured) on Kickstarter where it is costing £69. They expect the final gadget to go on sale for around £99
They are raising funds to produce the first batch of 1000 Line-us machines.
'This is way in excess of even our wildest expectations, so we have to say a huge thank-you to all of our backers for making it happen', the pair wrote on their Kickstarter page.
'We're very excited to start work on getting Line-us manufactured and our looking forward to the next few months', they said.
The pair hope to begin shipping Line-us in October and expect it will cost around £99 when it goes on sale more widely.
If drawing is not your forte, users can also trace directly from the photos in their Camera Roll (pictured), which the robot will then produce a 'hand drawn' sketch of
Most watched News videos
- Danielle Bregoli throws punches while boarding Spirit Airways
- Cameraman 'zooms in' on woman's breasts in 'see-through' swimsuit
- Caught on camera: Bystanders watch topless men fighting in street
- Moment Lindsay Hoyle and Alex Salmond scream at each other
- Danielle Bregoli discusses fighting a 'crack head' with her mom
- 'I don't take no s***': Bus driver kicks drunk man off bus
- Watch Barack Obama wipe out in kite surfing battle
- McConnell blocks Warren from reading letter from MLK's wife
- Footage shows hostile environment that Alexander Blackman endured
- Melissa McCarthy nails screeching Sean Spicer on SNL
- Danielle went viral after appearing on Dr Phil in 2016
- Moment woman pops open her shirt by flexing her boobs
- Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, 45, dies at her London...
- 'She hit my mom and I need to whoop her right now:'...
- Barack Obam-AIR! New photos show former president...
- San Francisco transit janitor who makes more than $250K a...
- Woman accused of Photoshopping an engaged stranger's face...
- 'My intestines were out... and she was grabbing hold of...
- Snow could hit London TONIGHT and it's set to be a white...
- Chilling moment four women are stranded on a rock in the...
- Tara's devastating secret illness in her own words: How...
- Thinking of her breaststroke? Distracted cameraman...
- The astonishing moment a Zebra's head is left poking out...
- Bridge of sighs: Disgusted mother, 19, spots a couple...
- Visiting daddy at work! Ivanka shares sweet snap of her...
- New male contraceptive jab that works for TWO YEARS:...
- Iraqi girl, 10, is 'bitten to death' with medieval...
- Manchester City star John Stones splashes out £3.4million...
- 92% of left-wing activists live with their parents and...
- Mother is sentenced to 16 years in prison for incest,...