FRIDA: Promoting Human Creativity Using Robotics│Jean Oh (Carnegie Mellon University, Professor)

FRIDA, a reference to the vibrant painter Frida Kahlo, stands for a Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts. To promote human creativity and real-world arts, FRIDA supports intuitive ways for people to collaboratively create artworks, for instance, using natural language, images, and sounds. FRIDA is developed to create real-world arts, which is uniquely different from digital art tools such as DALL-E or Midjourney that can only generate digital content. For instance, FRIDA’s robot arm uses a brush and acrylic paint to produce a painting on a real canvas, taking one brush stroke at a time. The technical challenges addressed in FRIDA are, therefore, largely due to the physical constraints of embodiment and the uncertainty involved when interacting with the users and their physical environments.

In this session, speaker Jean Hyaejin Oh first shares her vision and the lessons learned on this experimental, interdisciplinary project. Through art, FRIDA explores fundamental AI and robotics challenges including semantic planning, reasoning about noisy action spaces, simulation to reality gaps, dexterous manipulation, as well as ethical issues such as data biases. With FRIDA, speaker Oh and her team aim to connect the success of generative AI in digital space back to our physical world to promote human creativity via traditional, real-world art with tangible mediums. #frida, #dalle #ai

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