Gaka-chu: a self-employed autonomous robot artist
Eduardo Castell\'o Ferrer, Ivan Berman, Aleksandr Kapitonov, Vadim Manaenko, Makar Chernyaev, Pavel Tarasov

TL;DR
This paper introduces Gaka-chu, an autonomous robot artist capable of creating art, selling it via blockchain, and autonomously managing its income and expenses over a six-month period, demonstrating economic autonomy in robotics.
Contribution
The paper presents the first implementation of an economically autonomous robot that can produce, sell art, and manage its finances independently using blockchain technology.
Findings
Gaka-chu created and sold four paintings over six months.
The robot autonomously managed its income to buy supplies and repay investors.
The experiment demonstrates the feasibility of economic autonomy in robots.
Abstract
The physical autonomy of robots is well understood both theoretically and practically. By contrast, there is almost no research exploring their potential economic autonomy. In this paper, we present the first economically autonomous robot -- a robot able to produce marketable goods while having full control over the use of its generated income. Gaka-chu ("painter" in Japanese) is a 6-axis robot arm that creates paintings of Japanese characters from an autoselected keyword. By using a blockchain-based smart contract, Gaka-chu can autonomously list a painting it made for sale in an online auction. In this transaction, the robot interacts with the human bidders as a peer not as a tool. Using the blockchain-based smart contract, Gaka-chu can then use its income from selling paintings to replenish its resources by autonomously ordering materials from an online art shop. We built the Gaka-chu…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlockchain Technology Applications and Security · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Sharing Economy and Platforms
