The robots are coming

Artists as diverse as Rachel Whiteread, Oscar Murillo and Yayoi Kusama are beginning to use the high-tech fabrication methods once available to only the most commercially successful artists such as Jeff Koons.
Lower-cost robots that mimic an artist’s arm movements and joints are starting to replace the pricey computer-numerical-control (CNC) machines that Koons uses to produce his sleek, industrial aesthetic.“The paradigm has changed,” says Konstantinos Papalexiou, the owner o