{"id":26574,"date":"2025-07-28T03:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26574\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T03:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:52:14","slug":"ai-robot-drills-into-biggest-concerns-of-our-time-oxford-creator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26574\/","title":{"rendered":"AI robot ‘drills into biggest concerns of our time’, Oxford creator says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CopyrightCopyright 2025 \u00a9 Ai-Da Robot Studios<\/p>\n

Ai-Da has recently presented her portrait of King Charles III at the United Nations’ AI for Good Global Summit<\/p>\n

The creator of the first ultra-realistic robot artist has said that working with a robot has evoked “lots of questions about the relationship we have with ourselves”.<\/p>\n

The artificial intelligence (AI) robot Ai-Da has been devised in Oxford by Aidan Meller, a specialist in modern and contemporary art, and built in the UK by Engineered Arts.<\/p>\n

She has been specifically designed as a humanoid to be able to do art and has recently unveiled a portrait of King Charles III<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Meller said Ai-Da and her artwork “drills into some of the biggest concerns and thoughts of our time”. <\/p>\n

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Buckingham Palace has authorized permission for Ai-Da’s artwork to be showcased<\/p>\n

Ai-Da has cameras in her eyes, which she uses to take images.<\/p>\n

Then, thanks to AI algorithms, she is able to interrogate the image which goes through to her arm to be converted into real-time coordinates – that enables her to hold a paintbrush to paint and draw.<\/p>\n

“You can meet her, you can talk to her using her language model and she’s then able to paint and draw you from sight,” Mr Meller said.<\/p>\n

“People have got very much 1950s robots in their head – the reality is that actually they’re very engaging.<\/p>\n

“It’s not until you look a robot in the eye and they say your name that the reality of this new sci-fi world that we are now currently in really takes hold.”<\/p>\n

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Mr Meller said they had felt the King “was a really good subject”, with the “extraordinary strides” of technology and the questions around our relationship to the environment<\/p>\n

Ai-Da has been asked to produce and showcase work at the United Nations’ AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

In 2024, she did a triptych of Enigma code-breaking mathematician Alan Turing, which was sold for more than \u00a31m at an auction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year, she turned her focus onto King Charles III.<\/p>\n

“With extraordinary strides that are taking place in technology and again, always questioning our relationship to the environment, we felt that King Charles was a really good subject,” Mr Meller said.<\/p>\n

He said that even though Ai-Da had not met the King, Buckingham Palace had authorized permission for the artwork to be showcased.<\/p>\n

When asked how she chooses her subjects, Mr Meller said: “Uncannily, and rather nerve-wrackingly, we just ask her”. <\/p>\n

“Ai-Da is connected to the internet [and] she’s able to speak at length about different people because she has a great deal of data to hand. <\/p>\n

“It was through those conversations that the artwork is then able to be done.”<\/p>\n

Ai-Da also painted a picture King Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Mr Meller said the idea behind Ai-Da was to have technology that could not only create but also “to critique and comment on itself”<\/p>\n

Mr Meller said the biggest realisation from the six years working with Ai-Da was “not so much about how human she is but actually how robotic we are”.<\/p>\n

“Working with a robot is throwing up lots of questions about the relationship we have actually with ourselves,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We hope that Ai-Da’s artwork is able to be a provocation to have that discussion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Copyright 2025 \u00a9 Ai-Da Robot Studios Ai-Da has recently presented her portrait of King Charles III at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-26574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}