Robot artist meets the press ahead of solo exhibition

Ai Da, the world's first ultra-realistic artificial-intelligent humanoid robot artist, was unveiled to the media ahead of the public opening of an exhibition of the robot's first works. Aidan Meller is the creator of Ai-Da, and also a gallery owner. He's seen here on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 posing with his invention, alongside an oil painting created by artists based on a sketch by Ai-Da, during the opening of Ai-Da's first solo exhibition in Oxford. Ai-Da – named after Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and writer often called the world's first computer coder – is able to draw creatively thanks to its in-built artificial intelligence (AI) technology. [Photo: AFP/ Niklas HALLE'N]