For the first time since the dawn of drone graffiti it's now possible to order a proper graffiti painting drone and have it delivered to your door. 

Made by drone graffiti pioneer artist KATSU and tech stars at Tsuru Robotics, the ‘Katsuru Beta’ is for sale at https://katsuru.ai/ until January 1st as a special edition collectors item. 

"It reaches unreachable surfaces. It paints at enormous scale. It will kick off a new era in art & activism." KATSU states on his Instagram. 

As recent works from both KATSU and Tsuru Robobotics suggests, a full delivery on that promise seems most likely. 

If you happen to be in Los Angeles July 28 - August 2 for the Thrive SIGGRAPH2019 conference you'll have a change to join the Tsuru robotics  session: "DroneGraffiti: Autonomous Multi-UAV Spray Painting" evolving around the technology that Tsuru Robotics have applied in amazing projects with Misha Most in Moscow, and recently with Carlo Ratti in Turin, Italy.

First announced two years ago the Turin based architect and design studio Carlo Ratti Associati's Paint by Drone project have now come to life in the crowdsourced format of UFO-Urban Flying Opera.

In collaboration with drone graffiti superstars Tsuru Robotics a 14 by 12 meter big mural was created based on the inputs of around 100 selected inputs from people in Aurelio Peccei park in Torino in the end of June.

“The city is an open canvas, where people can inscribe their stories in many ways,” says professor Carlo Ratti: “Such processes have always been happening; however, with UFO we tried to accelerate them, using drone technology to allow for a new use of painting as a means of expression.” “The project is inherently participatory, and it is about hacking the city,” says Antonio Atripaldi, project manager and partner at Carlo Ratti Associati: “It allows us to consider people’s input, and build new initiatives around bottom-up contributions. For cities, this means residents can reclaim, beautify and leave their mark on the space they inhabit.”

In november 2017 Moscow based street artist Misha Most, programmers from Interactive Lab and engineers from Tsuru Robotics revealed a magnificent piece of public drone graffiti. Now the guys from Tsuru Robotics have written great great articles about work following up on the technical and engineering aspects of the project. Both published at the DIY Drones blog.