"One of the most innate things a human can do to be creative is draw," Agrawal told Fast Company. The Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media Lab have developed a creative device called the " Flying Pantograph " that can follow a human artist 's pen movements and copy the drawing on its own canvas . Lab students Harshit Agrawal , Pattie Maes and Sang - won Leigh used a camera to capture the motion and a computer to instruct the drone watching the flow of the pen to copy the drawing on a vertical canvas . Accuracy is still to be perfected , as the team considers new ways of helping the drone to maintain balance for the creation of more precise drawings . Researchers suggest that VR controls and eye - tracking technology could present another possibility for helping disabled people to write messages and create art using the drawing - device in future .
The Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media Lab have developed a creative device called the " Flying Pantograph " that can follow a human artist 's pen movements and copy the drawing on its own canvas . Lab students Harshit Agrawal , Pattie Maes and Sang - won Leigh used a camera to capture the motion and a computer to instruct the drone watching the flow of the pen to copy the drawing on a vertical canvas . Accuracy is still to be perfected , as the team considers new ways of helping the drone to maintain balance for the creation of more precise drawings . Researchers suggest that VR controls and eye - tracking technology could present another possibility for helping disabled people to write messages and create art using the drawing - device in future .