What does a robot do in cinematography?
With the advancement in computing and processing powers of the computers, many process are being automated, cinematography is one of the fields where the automation is applied.
These robots are used to shoot some unimaginable shots which can’t be shot by humans.
The cameras are mounted on the robots and the way a shot has to be shot is programmed and fed to the robot.
The robots swings its arms as programmed and a perfect shot is taken even without any shakes or glitches.
Motorized Precision, a company that develops cinema robots offers several cinema robots of different sizes and capabilities. The company has developed a very interactive interface for programming the robots. It offers a software called “MP Studio” with which the robot scan be programmed as desired.
Currently, these cinema robots are used in many commercial advertisements to get an impressive shot of the product and these robots are also used in movies.
Also the robots take care of focusing of the subject when using a manual lens in the camera. When the distance between the subject and the camera changes, the focusing mechanism provided with the robot adjusts the focal