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The humanoid called Ai-Da can sketch subjects using a microchip in her eye and a pencil in her robotic hand – coordinated by artificial intelligence (AI) processes and algorithms.
Ai-Da’s ability as a life-like robot to draw and paint ultra-realistic portraits from sight has never been achieved before, according to the designers in Cornwall.
It is the brainchild of art impresario and galleries Aidan Meller.
Named after Ada Lovelace, the first female computer programmer in the world, Ai-Da the robot has been designed and built by Cornish robotics company Engineered Arts who make robots for communication and entertainment.
SHOCK: The robot called Ai-Da can sketch people using a microchip in her eye (Pic: SWNS/REUTERS)
CLEVER: Ai-Da uses a pencil in her robotic hand to draw her subjects (Pic: REUTERS)
In April 2018, Engineered Arts created an ultra-realistic robot to promote the Westworld TV show.
Mr Meller said: “Pioneering a new AI art movement, we are excited to present Ai-Da, the first professional humanoid artist, who creates her own art, as well as being a performance artist.
“As an AI robot, her artwork uses AI processes and algorithms.
“As an AI robot, her artwork uses AI processes and algorithms”
Aidan Meller
“The work engages us to think about AI and technological uses and abuses in the world today.”
He continued: “She’s going to actually be drawing and we’re hoping to then build technology for her to paint.
“But also as a performance artist she’ll be able to engage with audiences and actually get messages across; asking those questions about technology today.”
Professors and post-Phd students at Oxford University and Goldsmiths are providing Ai-Da with the programming and creative design for her artwork.
LIFE-LIKE: An artist’s impression of what Ai-Da will look like when she is finished (Pic: SWNS)
IMPRESSIVE: Mike Humphrey, a specialist at Engineered Arts, helped create Ai-D (Pic: REUTERS)
While students at Leeds University are custom designing and programming a bionic arm to create her artwork.
Ai-Da has a “RoboThespian” body, featuring an expressive range of movements and she has the ability to talk and respond to questions.
“There’s AI (artificial intelligence) running in the computer vision that allows the robot to track faces to recognise facial features and to mimic your expression,” said Marcus Hold, Design & Production Engineer at Engineered Arts.
Ai-Da’s makers are using “Mesmer” life-like robot technology for her head, and once finished she will have a mixed race appearance with long dark hair, silicone skin and 3D printed teeth and gums.
TECHNOLOGY: The robot has intricate design and mechanics (Pic: SWNS)
ARTIST: The robot is being worked on by Engineered Arts in Cornwall (Pic: REUTERS)
“(Mesmer) brings together the development of software mechanics and electronics to produce a lifelike face with lifelike gestures in a small human sized package,” Hold said.
Ai-Da will be mixed race in appearance and will be completed this month, before her first exhibition Unsecured Futures that will launch on the May 9 at Lady Margaret Hall and St John’s College, University of Oxford.
The exhibition will show Ai-Da’s performance art, as well as plastic, silver and bronze 2D and 3D works rendered through AI processes.
Ai-Da will also give a live performance at the opening, in homage to Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece in reverse, and in November Ai-Da will exhibit her original sketches in London.
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