The portrait depicts the mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence. Its creator is a robot that resembles a woman with a bob haircut.

The “world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist” has sold a portrait of Alan Turing – the codebreaking trailblazer of modern computer science – for over $1 million. The sale marks the first work of art by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction (although,

Since Ai-Da’s arm can only paint on a small, 11.7 x 16.5-inch canvas, the final image is printed onto a bigger canvas using a 3D textured printer. Sotheby’s noted that “there is no change to the underlying image in this process.” The way in which ...