--- description: Pen-wielding robots create notes that look handwritten title: This Robot Learns How to Copy Your Handwriting image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Robot Learns How to Copy Your Handwriting by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 13, 2015 5:05 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 13, 2015 5:05 PM CUT A New York City-based startup has created robots that can learn your handwriting—and turn digital notes you write into letters penned on crisp stationery that look like you hand-wrote them yourself. The startup, called Bond, instructs customers to send in a writing sample. Calligraphers who work at the company help digitize the handwriting in part by hand-tracing the letters. From there, Bond’s pen-wielding robots can convert typed-out notes into physical letters written on stationery the customer selects. Bond stuffs the envelope and sends the “handwritten” note to the recipient… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/bonds-note-writing-robots-pen-letters-your-handwriting-n322906?cid=par-time-article%5F20150313 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3744367/robot-handwriting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3744367/robot-handwriting/"},"headline":"This Robot Learns How to Copy Your Handwriting","datePublished":"2015-03-13T17:05:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:04:39.351Z","description":"Pen-wielding robots create notes that look handwritten","url":"https://time.com/3744367/robot-handwriting/","keywords":["Tech","robotics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3744367/robot-handwriting/","name":"This Robot Learns How to Copy Your Handwriting"}}]}] ```