Draw Me Bot: The AI-Based Drawing Robot Photo Booth

Interactive Photo Booth Experience

Step 1 begins with a fun and engaging photo booth experience. Participants are greeted by lively interactive animations that guide and entertain them throughout the photo-taking process with the iPad.

After taking their photo, participants can choose to retake, print and share it before the robotic drawing begins.

Captivating Drawing Experience

In Step 2, the excitement reaches its peak and participants are amazed as a robotic arm brings the drawing to life, line by line, right before their eyes. This captivating drawing experience leaves a lasting impression.

One-of-a-Kind Keepsake

Step 3 culminates in a one-of-a-kind keepsake. The robot’s AI-based portrait trace ensures that the final drawing captures the unique characteristics of each individual participant – a unique memento of a special event or occasion.

Additionally, participants receive the optionally printed and shared copies of the original photo.

Easy to Transport

Transporting a Draw Me Bot setup is easy, safe, and convenient with vehicles as small as common compact cars.

Robotic arms are transported in designated protective cases that measure 8.3″ × 15″ × 10.3″ and weigh 5.29 lbs each.

As part of the Turn-Key package, a folding table is supplied. When collapsed for transportation, it measures 23.7″ × 4″ × 23.7″ and weighs 18.96 lbs.

All remaining accessories, such as drawing markers, drawing paper platforms, drawing papers, and an iPad table stand, can be placed in a single bag. Additionally, the electronics, including an Apple MacBook Air, Apple iPad Pro, USB hub, adapters, and cables, can also fit in the same bag.

Fast to Setup

Setting up the Draw Me Bot station is quick and easy, and can be done by a single person in just a few minutes.

To set up the station, the folding table is opened, and the spandex cover is stretched over it. The robotic arms and paper platforms are then placed on top of the table, and the electronic components are connected. Finally, a drawing marker is inserted into each robotic arm.

For best results, we recommend calibrating each robotic arm for 30 seconds before use.

Scalable

The Draw Me Bot software is designed to be versatile and support events of various sizes. It is programmed to automatically scale the operation based on the number of robotic arms connected, allowing it to accommodate both small events with 1-3 units and larger events with 3-5 units. This ensures that the Draw Me Bot can adapt to your event’s specific needs, providing a customized and efficient experience for you and your clients.

Drawing Speed

Watching the robotic arm as it brings the drawing to life, line by line, is an amazing and exciting experience for participants.

The drawing time is simply a function of the amount of details drawn. With the Draw Me Bot, the average drawing time is 40 seconds per drawing – perfect for enough details to ensure facial resemblance, enough time to enjoy the drawing process and keep an efficient workflow throughout an event.

• Kids: 38 seconds on average
• Adults: 43 seconds on average
• Glasses: +5 seconds on average
• Beards: +30 seconds on average

We plan to update these averages as development progresses, new software versions are released and timings change.

Hardware Branding and Styling

The Draw Me Bot is provided with PSD branding and styling templates that can be easily modified with any design you desire, exported to PDF, and sent to a local printing house to produce transfer stickers for your robotic arms.

Drawing Paper Platform

The drawing paper platform measures 9.9″ × 9.18″ × 7.6″ and weighs 2.2 lbs. Each robotic arm comes with its own platform.

Drawing Papers

Draw Me Bot’s drawing papers measure 6″ × 4″.

Your purchase includes 1,000 drawing papers with a high-quality thickness of 300 GSM.

In addition, you’ll receive PSD branding and styling templates that can be easily modified with any design you desire, exported to PDF, and sent to a local printing house to produce custom drawing papers.

Low-Cost Consumables

The Draw Me Bot is exceptionably cost-efficient to operate. It only requires a simple marker (12 are included with your purchase) and plain 300-gram paper (1,000 are included with your purchase), which makes it incredibly affordable compared to other photo booths that require expensive 6×4 dye-sub prints. This reduces the overall cost per event and maximizes profit.

Engaging Animations

Coupling a live video of participants captured by the iPad camera with overlaying vibrant animations that guide and entertain throughout the workflow is engaging by its very nature.

You’ll be able to get the most out of it with premium animations included and tailored for the Draw Me Bot and the ability to add your own.

Included Animations

All included animations were exclusively drawn by Foto Master’s talented animator to be as clever, beautiful and entertaining as possibly imaginable. And they all include professional, complementing voice-overs.

Custom Animations

You’ll be able to turn any original idea, unique concept or purchased media into an animation.

Upsell and charge more for your services by producing unique animations that feature the subjects of the event (for example: the bride & groom, the corporate brand, etc).

Random Animations

You’ll be able to surprise participants and make every experience unique with random animations. With the feature added, the software will make a random selection out of a custom animations list.

Facial Resemblance

The conversion of portrait photos to line drawings is a feature based on an AI image processing algorithm developed by Foto Master for the Draw Me Bot exclusively. The feature will automatically process and convert participants’ selfies before they are sent to the robotic arms as line drawings.

Extensive work has gone into creating an algorithm which fully transfers the style of line drawings while keeping facial resemblance to the subject in the original image.

Sharing

In addition to the robotic drawing, you’ll be able to allow participants to send their produced selfies as MMS messages to their phones, as email messages to their inboxes or by using your own custom-built online sharing methods.

The Sharing Experience

Sharing is a quick and easy experience where participants enter their phone number or email address using a virtual keyboard/numpad.

Offline Mode

The sharing experience continues operating seamlessly when you don’t have or lose an internet connection during an event. Foto Master’s photo booth software maintains a queue that gradually delivers the data of each sharing action when an internet connection becomes available.

Online Sharing Methods & Customization

You’ll be able to choose whether to enable sharing and customize it per event. You’ll also be able to display a selection of sharing methods for each participant to choose from per session.

You’ll be able to customize the online sharing interface: the design of the virtual keyboard or numpad, the textual content of the disclaimer and that of the shared message, whether to display a GDPR compliance checkbox and more.

Processing Methods

• You’ll be able to use Foto Master sandbox servers currently available as a courtesy service for:
  • Sharing via Email: A free method with reliable deliverability
  • Sharing via MMS using Your Own Twilio Account: A cost-effective method with reliable deliverability
• You’ll be able to use your own servers and custom-built scripts to:
  • Process and send email messages and/or MMS messages directly
  • Integrate with 3rd party sharing services of your choosing
  • Share by custom-built online galleries

Exports

You’ll be able to export all email addresses and phone numbers that were used as sharing destinations per event.

Sharing Analytics

You’ll be able to view a summarized usage count of each sharing method per event.

Monitoring

The monitoring panel in the Draw Me Bot software provides real-time updates on the drawing process.

You can easily view the drawings queue, see which drawings are currently being worked on, and track completed ones.

The panel also displays the drawing time and start time for each piece, along with the robotic arm responsible for the drawing.

This feature allows the operator to inform participants about the status of their drawings, including which robot is currently working on their photo.

Robot Control

The robot control panel in Draw Me Bot’s software allows the operator to manage and monitor the connected robotic arms.

Once the drawing markers are inserted into the robotic arms, the panel allows performing a 30-second calibration process where the height of the marker is set for best results.

The process is almost entirely automated, with only one manual step of feeding the paper holder with paper.

Each robotic arm has three states: Waiting for Operator (default state and the state the bot returns to after drawing), Busy Drawing (currently drawing), and Waiting on Drawing (robot is waiting for a drawing to arrive after the operator feeds it paper).

The drawing queue automatically selects an available robotic arm and updates its status. This allows the operator to see which arm is currently drawing and which ones are available for the next drawing.

Lastly, the panel displays the connection status with the iPad via AirDrop. This technology ensures quick and reliable transfer of photos from the iPad to the software, even in challenging Wi-Fi or Bluetooth environments.

Workflow Builder

Included Workflows

Foto Master’s Draw Me Bot software comes pre-configured with workflow presets right out-of-the-box. You’ll be able to select a preset to automatically load a workflow complete with the matching animations and engaging features to suit the event.

Custom Workflows

You’ll be able to amaze your clients by using the workflow builder to customize anything about the experience and charge more for your services:

• The graphic animations
• The voice-overs
• The photo retake option
• The sharing options
• The printing options
• And the overall combination of features (the workflow)

We’ve Got You Covered: 24/7 Support You Can Rely On

If you think our products are cool, just wait until you meet Foto Master’s support team. We are all about giving you true peace of mind.

You will get personal attention from professionals who really care about you and 24/7 availability by phone, online chat, email, Skype, or Facebook.

Keeping Your Service Fresh: Constant Software Upgrades

Amaze your clients with the latest, cutting-edge photo booth features and exclusive premium content assets on a regular basis.

With the “Foto Master Advantage” service package, your lifetime software license gets constantly upgraded with both major and seasonal version releases.

Software releases include new, often game-changing capabilities and industry-leading features developed by Foto Master as well as exclusive premium content assets that keep you way ahead of the competition.

Supply of Exclusive Leads

Upon your purchase of a Foto Master photo booth you will be given access to the ‘Lead Distribution Platform’ (LDP) – a dedicated system developed by Foto Master to help you speed up your return on investment.

The system automatically provides you with contact details (leads) of people in your area currently interested in renting your model of Foto Master photo booth.

• The leads are sourced by Foto Master directly.
• The leads are shared quickly, keeping them current for you.
• The leads you receive are not shared with anyone else, keeping them exclusive for you.
• The contacts expect a product owner in their area to contact them with an offer.

For more information about how the system works, visit this blog post.

Your New Family: A Friendly Community of Foto Master’s Photo Booth Owners

We have a group on Facebook for Foto Master’s photo booth owners to which we’ll add you after completing your personal training session.

Once you join as a member, you’ll find a very active, warm and friendly community with helpful discussions, resource sharing, sharing of experiences, software update announcements and much more. It works, looks and feels like a real family.