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One volunteer is the proud of owner of what is thought to be the first tattoo etched by a machine (pictured) - a perfect circle on his forearm
Raw material: A group of three French design students modified a MarkerBot 3D printer (pictured) as part of a challenge set by France's Cultural Ministry, which challenged people to remix images and sounds in the public domain to create something new
Going further: The students managed to get the machine to draw a perfect circle on a volunteer's arm in ink from a Biro within one afternoon, but then decided to continue to modify the printer, installing a tattoo gun (pictured) so the robot could permanently ink a volunteer
Ready to go: The big difficulty was to get the machine to tattoo accurately on real skin - a curved and flexible surface (pictured). The students experimented with a number of ways of keeping the skin stretched taut and settled on a tube with an exposed patch where the tattoo was going to be
Daily Mail