Ai-Da

Ai-Da is an artificial intelligence robot that makes drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Completed in 2019, Ai-Da is described by its creator as "the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot" artist. It is named after Ada Lovelace. The robot gained international attention when it was able to draw people with a pencil using her bionic hand and cameras in her eyes.

==History== thumb|Ai-Da with self portrait (2021) In 2019, Ai-Da was conceived by gallerist Aidan Meller as an AI art generator embodied as a life-like humanoid robot. The hardware was built in collaboration with Engineered Arts, a Cornish robotics company. The graphics algorithms allowing it to draw were developed by computer AI researchers at the University of Oxford, and its drawing arm was developed by Salaheldin Al Abd and Ziad Abass, students from the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds. In April 2022, Ai-Da was equipped with a new arm that enabled it to paint using a palette, first shown at the British Library in London.