But rarely do we see the power of robotics harnessed purely in the pursuit of beauty. And as this video shows, they can be pretty damn good at that, too. The clip is a compilation of student work ...

Certainly it butts up against similar questions around art and creativity as AI projects like DALL-E and ChatGPT — though the question is arguably even more in your face when it’s a robot arm ...

Kasia Cieplak-Mary von Baldegg has up on the Video channel a clip of Unimation Inc.'s president, Joseph Engelberger, demonstrating the robotic arm on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in 1966.