London ink artist Wes Thomas was enlisted to operate the robot appendage, with tattoo needle attached, to reproduce one of his abstract designs onto the inner forearm of Dutch actress Stijn Fransen.

Would you let a robot ink a cloud-based tattoo design onto you? For the low price of $10,000 and a trip to Austin, Texas, now you can. Last week, the Blackdot robo-tattooing startup came out of ...

There are some advantages to having a robot tattoo artist. Machines have steadier hands than humans, for instance. There’s also the promise that you’ll get the exact design you want.

As part of a marketing stunt for telecom T-Mobile Netherlands, Dutch TV personality Stijn Fransen got a tattoo by a tattoo artist — but remotely, through the use of a 5G-enabled robot.

The submitted designs are kept in a secure cloud that can be accessed at any Blackdot Studio, with the company using blockchain technology to track tattoo execution. Each time someone chooses to ...

"World's first remote robot tattoo" OK but from this pic it looks ... Looking at the abstract design, afterward, she beamed from ear to ear.