Meet Ai-Da, The New Robot Artist That Can Sketch You

Can robots become artists? Aidan Meller, a British gallery owner, hopes to answer this question with the invention of Ai-Da, who, according to her makers, will have the ability to draw people with her robotic arm with a pencil attached to it and her robotic eyes transmitting info to her arm.

Meller is in charge of supervising the final stages of building Ai-Da by engineers working at Engineered Arts at Cornwall, England.

Her name, Ai-da takes after Ada Lovelace, a British computer pioneer and mathematician. She is the first “AI ultra-realistic robot artist” in the world. His ambition for her is to do things as good as a human can do.

After seeing specialist working on the prosthetic head of Ai-Da, carefully attaching hairs to create her eyebrows, Meller said:

In an interview with Reuters, Marcus Hold, Engineered Arts’ Design, and Production Engineer, said:

For her head, engineers are utilizing a life-like robot technology called “Mesmer.” Once the constructing process completed, her appearance will have mixed race features.

At the moment, Ai-Da is still only a robotic skeleton accompanied with human features such as skin, eyes, and a mouth. With her eyes, she can follow, react to movement and even blink.

She will be equipped with a “RoboThespian” body so that she can deliver expressive movements, talk and response to questions.

This May, she will be making her public debut at the “Unsecured Futures” exhibition organized by the University of Oxford. And in November, her art will be exhibited at an art gallery in London.