‘Ink Master’ Stars Blast Automated Tattoo Robot, Call It Unrealistic

Automated tattoo machines are only a passing fad and will not ever substitute human-to-human interplay within the ink recreation — that is how a pair flesh-and-blood masters of the craft see it.

We spoke with “Ink Grasp” winner Bobby Johnson and fellow contestant Aaron Davis — who each appeared in Season 15 collectively — concerning the current robot-human tattoo collab that took the web by storm, and each guys slammed all the idea.

Proper off the bat, Bobby calls the tech tattoo development ridiculous … likening it to a manufacturing unit manufacturing line of meals, and calling it out for missing coronary heart and fervour.

When Bobby tattoos, he says he designs tats for an individual’s particular physique kind and makes adjustments as wanted — so, he says he is unsure how a robotic may present the identical complete expertise if it is simply going off coded directions.

In different phrases … Bobby says there’s nothing fairly just like the human contact for tattooing.

He is additionally straight-up questioning the tech right here, too … brazenly questioning what occurs to an area tattoo parlor if the machine breaks down out of the blue, and must be repaired.

As for Aaron, he says he thinks this new expertise is only a fad, and whereas he is satisfied the machine might need some fundamental tattoo expertise … he says that does not make it a real artist.

Nonetheless, he thinks some individuals will go the robotic route. As an example, Aaron says the wealthy and well-known — or as he places it, the Kardashians of the world — will in all probability purchase into this physique artwork novelty.

We broke the story … artist Dillon Forte labored with a machine constructed by tech firm Blackdot to collaborate on a sci-fi/space-themed tattoo, and the components created by the automated artist seemed rattling close to equivalent to Forte’s design.