Fort Worth artist and roboticist Pindar Van Arman in a scene from his YouTube video "Teaching a Robot to Paint Like a Child." [Video still: Pindar Van Arman/YouTube]
Van Arman is a Fort Worth-based artist and roboticist who's developed robots that "use deep learning neural networks, artificial intelligence, feedback loops, and computational creativity to make a surprising amount of independent aesthetic decisions." But Van Arman insists that he is the artist—not his robots.