Robotic Quine

Robotic Quine or “Robo Quine” is a robot that types its own source code. Bryce Summers designed the Robotic Quine programming language (RQL) which commands the xy-gantry robot to type on a human interface keyboard, and a G-Code which allows the artist to command the robot to elegantly write its own source code by translating the G-code to a machine code, translated again through input on the Qwrty keyboard. The theoretically endless translation cycle allows the robot to “write” its own source code.

Robotic Quine by Bryce Summers :: Supported by FRFAF (#2016-09) from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

This project was supported in part by Microgrant #2016-09 from the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier. Additional images can be found here.