Humanoid robot painting goes to auction

Ai-Da, one of the most advanced humanoid robots in the world, is set to make history when its portrait painting of Alan Turing goes to auction for an expected hammer price of $130,000-$196,000

Ai-Da: Created by UK
art gallery owner Aidan
Meller in 2019. Uses
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
to make drawings,
paintings and sculptures
using its camera eyes
and mechanical arms

Named after Ada
Lovelace (1815-1852),
English mathematician
and writer known for her
work on Charles
Babbage’s Analytical
Engine mechanical
computer

— AI God, Portrait of Alan Turing —
Mixed media on canvas, executed 2024
Ai-Da Robot (Aidan Meller)

Alan Turing (1912-1954): World
War II codebreaker, regarded as
father of modern computer
science. Famed for designing
British bombe machine in 1939,
used to help decipher German
Enigma machine encrypted
secret messages

1.63m
2.30m

Sources: AFP, Sotheby’s, Ai-Da Robot Pictures: Sotheby’s, Ai-Da Robot

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