Mathematician Turing was a pioneer of computer science and known as the father of artificial intelligence (AI ... Ai-Da Robot Studios In total Ai-Da Robot made 15 paintings of Alan Turing, which took up to eight hours to complete The work is a large ...

A portrait of Alan Turing created by a robot has been auctioned for more than £800,000 and made history in the process. Ai-Da Robot, named after Ada Lovelace, who is considered to be the first computer programmer, has become the first humanoid robotic artist to have their artwork sold by a major auction house.

An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at auction and raising new questions about the role of artificial intelligence in art.