The Making of Sophia: Drawing

As an intersection between science and art, Sophia the Robot recently learned to draw portraits. Sophias talent for drawing was a joint collaboration between Hanson Robotics Limited and Patrick Tresset, an artist who uses robots and autonomous computational systems to create art. Before Sophia ever puts pen to paper, she first uses her eye and chest cameras to take a photo of her subject. She then processes the photo to find the right balance between dark and light, and removes the background around the