Dulcinea is a fully-automated robot that creates paintings using a brush, paints and canvas. She operates continuously, changing paint colors and washing her brush between colors as needed, until a painting is completed.

The robot is a custom, gantry-style design, about eleven-feet high, ten-feet wide and weighing three-thousand pounds. For manipulating the paint brush (as a human might) there are seven, high-performance, servo motors run by an Adept Technology robot controller. Housed in a six-foot high, electronic cabinet, along with the controller, are motor controls, power amplifiers, power supplies and assorted electronics. Mounted on a four-foot wide control panel are various pneumatic controls for automated paint-vessel exchanges and brush-washing operations.

All operations of the robot work-cell are managed by Adept's controller. It has a real-time operating system, running three programs in parallel, using about 25,000 lines of custom code written in Adept's V+ programming language.

Dulcinea is designed to run continuously and unattended until a painting is completed. This could involve hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of brush strokes over the course of many hours to a few days of operation. After completing the final brush stroke of a painting, she returns the last paint vessel of color to its allotted, storage-shelf location, seals the paint from drying, washes her brush one last time, moves to her "home" location in the lower-left corner, and "happily" turns off her own power.