An exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture made by Ai-Da, a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence, has been unveiled at a gallery in the UK.
Ai-Da, who is named after pioneering scientist Ada Lovelace, was revealed along with her creations at St John's College at the University of Oxford.
Ai-Da's drawings are fed into AI algorithms to create abstract paintings. Photo by Nicky Johnston
The AI robot, who was invented by gallery director Aidan Meller, can draw things from life using an inbuilt camera, a mechanical arm developed at Leeds University, and algorithms developed by scientists at Oxford.
In order to draw, the camera analysis the object in front of it and creates a virtual path, which is fed into a path execution algorithm that produces real-space coordinates for the robotic arm. Ai-Da is a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence and mechanical arms
Facial-recognition technology allows her to draw pencil portraits of people by scanning their features with the cameras in her eyes and using the robotic arm to map them on paper.
To create paintings, Ai-Da's drawings are fed into AI algorithms that interact with the Cartesian plane to plot them along two axis and create abstract versions of her art.
Eye cameras and facial-recognition technology allows her to draw people
A 3D-printed sculpture of a bee was created by combining a drawing Ai-Da did of a micro-CT scan of a real-life bee made by professor Javier Alba-Tercedor.
This drawing was fed into an AI...