If you gave Roomba, which has the curiosity of a three-year-old, a set of markers and the ability to climb walls, you’d get the Scribit robot.

Created by MIT professor Carlo Ratti, the scribbling bot takes humanity’s insatiable desire to use walls as a canvas and lets a robot do all the hard work. Designed for use on essentially any smooth surface, the $449 robot has attracted over $3.8 million in crowdfunding and is scheduled to begin shipping to eager investors by January 2019.

In an age of digital screens, Ratti describes Scribit in a video as a tool that can help consumers return to a simpler pastime (although using the bot still requires a phone app to send instructions).

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