This roomba-sized robot can paint on walls! - Yanko Design

Carlo Ratti's Scribit is a modest printer with big ambitions and the ability to take on the biggest canvases possible. Scribit is a robot that allows users to draw on walls, whiteboards, pieces of drinking glass, or plastered drywall. Suspending itself from the uppermost corners, the Scribit can pretty accurately runway coordinates (like a delta 3D printer, but without the Z axis) and create artworks on massive walls using the CMYK markers within its blueprint. Using whiteboard markers to create complex artworks, the artworks can also be erased and replaced with new ones from time to time, allowing massive walls to turn into dynamic canvases for art, information, or ad.

"Nosotros are totally deluged with information, and spend too much of our not-sleeping time in front of one grade or another of digital screen – TV, desktop computer, laptop, tablet or phone. Practice we actually desire to add more screens to our lives?" says Ratti, founding partner of CRA and director of the MIT Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Applied science (MIT): "Scribit offers up an alternative: a robotic system that draws on whatever kind of vertical surface, following a primordial act performed by humanity since our first cave graffiti."

Readers in Milan, get ready to come across the Scribit first paw at the Milan Design Week!

Designer: Carlo Ratti Associati