AI Robot “drills to the biggest concerns of our time,” says the creator of Oxford

The creator of the first surreal robot artist says that his work with robots evoked “many questions about our relationship with us.”

AI-DA is an artificial intelligence (AI) robot, invented by Aidan Mellor, a contemporary and contemporary art expert in Oxford, and is built in the UK with engineering art.

She was specially designed as a humanoid to allow her to do art, and recently published a portrait of Charles III.

Meller said Ida and her artwork “dive into some of the biggest concerns and thoughts of our time.”

The AI-DA has a camera in the eyes and is used to capture images.

Next, thanks to the AI algorithm, she can interrogate the images she passes through her arm, and is converted to real-time coordinates.

“You can meet her, you can speak to her using her language model and she can draw you from sight and draw you closer,” Meller said.

“People have 1950s robots in their heads, and in reality they are really very appealing.

“The reality of this new sci-fi world is really entrenched at us right now, until you see the robot in your eyes and they say your name.”

AI-DA is being asked to create and showcase work at the United Nations AI for the Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 2024, she made a triple win for Alan Turing, a mathematician who beats the Enigma Code, selling over £1 million at auction.

This year, she focused on Charles III.

“I felt that King Charles was a really good theme because I've always questioned the extraordinary advancements that are happening in technology and once again the relationship with the environment,” Meller said.

He said Buckingham Palace allowed the artwork to be introduced, even if Ida had not seen the king.

When asked how she would choose her subject, Meller said:

“AI-DA is connected to the internet [and] She has a lot of data on hand, so she can talk about various people at length.

“It was through those conversations that I could do the artwork.”

AI-DA painted a picture of Charles' mother, Queen Elizabeth II II in 2023.

Merr said that his biggest perception of working for AI-DA over the past six years was “not about how human she is, not how robotic we are in fact.”

“Working with robots raises a lot of questions about the relationship we actually have with ourselves,” he said.

“I hope that AI-DA artwork can be a provocation to make that argument.”